Entries Tagged as ‘emerging church’

3 January 2008

New monasticism revisited

I’ve posted articles in my blogs about new monasticism in the past, for example at Notes from underground: Urban monasticism and Notes from underground: Abandoned places of empire. You can find others by typing “new monasticism” in the search box of this blog or my other one.
Most of them haven’t attracted any relevant comments, and [...]

7 September 2007

Orthodoxy lite draws evangelicals

When trying to discover what the “emerging church” movement was about, I got the opportunity to hear one of the fundis on it, Brian McLaren, speak in Pretoria. As I’ve noted in this blog and elsewhere, most of what he said was pretty familiar, and most Orthodox Christians would find little to disagree with in [...]

10 August 2007

Emergence, Orthodoxy and the mind of the Church

Some interesting ideas on this topic here, which may link up with something I wrote earlier in Notes from underground: Emerging church and Orthodoxy revisited.
Not much more to say about it at the moment, just wanted to link the two ideas that provide a couple of models, or analogies for Orthodox ecclesiology.

10 June 2007

Now you see it, now you don’t

Batten down the hatches, down periscopes, the emerging church is submerging again!
Or is it just a mixed mataphor?

5 May 2007

A generous Orthodoxy — Brian McLaren in Pretoria

A couple of days ago I went to hear Brian McLaren, one of the fundis of the “emerging church” movement, speak in Pretoria. I wrote about my initial reactions here: Notes from underground: Brian McLaren: a generous Orthodoxy. Now here are some further reflections and comments on what he said.
A few months ago, in the [...]

28 April 2007

Missional ecclesiology — what is it?

As a retired missiologist I still take an interest in missiology (for those who don’t know, missiology is the study of Christian mission) and so I took an interest in a new development I discovered about 18 months ago when I found that bloggers who listed “missiology” among their interests also listed “emerging church”, and [...]

25 April 2007

From communist youth to Orthodox monks

Most of us have read in the newspapers and seen graphic images on television of the violence and destruction of the Wars of the Yugoslav succession, when Yugoslavia tore itself apart (often with outside assistance) during the 1990s.
But even in the midst of the destruction, there were signs of hope, as some, at least, pursued [...]

17 April 2007

Orthodoxy, gospel and culture

In my other blog Notes from underground: The ikon in an age of neo-tribalism I recently wrote about Orthodoxy and Western culture, and now Father Stephen has posted on his blog about the approach of Orthodoxy to Western culture in Reflections on Florovsky.
As Fr Stephen points out, “Florovsky was both a Russian and a true [...]

4 April 2007

Can one buy Christian books in Pretoria, Tshwane, Gauteng?

A few days ago I noted in my other blog Notes from underground: Brian McLaren to speak in Pretoria that a well-known emerging church fundi was to speak in Pretoria next month, and asked if anyone who knew him or knew of him could recommend going to hear him.
Most of those who commented said it [...]