Comments on: The Emergent Church http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/ Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:35:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Gaberiel Fackre http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/comment-page-1/#comment-14450 Gaberiel Fackre Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:18:01 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/#comment-14450 Leander+, Wonderful to read your blog for the first time. Shame on me for the delay. Just finished your excellent, "Why is Dialogue so Difficult?" in the Fall, 2008 Trinity Journal and was prompted to re-connect. Perhaps a few emergents/reemergents will be at Craigville Colloquy 26 next week on Cape Cod. ( I remember your contributions at a previous one.). The topic this year which has drawn a large registration is "Spirituality and the Holy Spirit: A New Awakening for the Church?" Accent will be on recovering ancient Christian practices and experiencing some contemporary ones (Taize, Iona...), in various workshops and plenary presentations with much Bible study. It sounds similar in some respects to the gathering at Trinity you describe. Will check in here from time to time. Am blogging currently on the Confessing Christ website on "Hope," in case you are interested. And we are begnning to discuss God and globalization in the Open Forum, with Max's four volume series as a background. Incidentally and sadly, Max, your old teacher, just had a slight stroke. Appreciatively, Gabe Leander+,

Wonderful to read your blog for the first time. Shame on me for the delay. Just finished your excellent, “Why is Dialogue so Difficult?” in the Fall, 2008 Trinity Journal and was prompted to re-connect.

Perhaps a few emergents/reemergents will be at Craigville Colloquy 26 next week on Cape Cod. ( I remember your contributions at a previous one.). The topic this year which has drawn a large registration is “Spirituality and the Holy Spirit: A New Awakening for the Church?” Accent will be on recovering ancient Christian practices and experiencing some contemporary ones (Taize, Iona…), in various workshops and plenary presentations with much Bible study. It sounds similar in some respects to the gathering at Trinity you describe.

Will check in here from time to time. Am blogging currently on the Confessing Christ website on “Hope,” in case you are interested. And we are begnning to discuss God and globalization in the Open Forum, with Max’s four volume series as a background. Incidentally and sadly, Max, your old teacher, just had a slight stroke.

Appreciatively,
Gabe

]]> By: The Dark Glass » Blog Archive » Emerging Church/Church Tradition http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/comment-page-1/#comment-14405 The Dark Glass » Blog Archive » Emerging Church/Church Tradition Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:25:29 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/#comment-14405 [...] Reflections On The Emerging Church [...] [...] Reflections On The Emerging Church [...]

]]> By: Brian Pickard http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/comment-page-1/#comment-13043 Brian Pickard Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:22:52 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/#comment-13043 Take a gander at "Why We're Not Emergent, By Two Guys Who Should Be" by DeYoung and Kluck...two young Reformed Evangelicals take on the pitfalls of Emergent/Emerging Christianity. I am Anglo-Catholic, but once upon a time was very enchanted by the Emergent/Emerging Movement, but I am having to re-evaluate it. Blessings...Brian Pickard < Seminarian, Anglican Church in North America Take a gander at “Why We’re Not Emergent, By Two Guys Who Should Be” by DeYoung and Kluck…two young Reformed Evangelicals take on the pitfalls of Emergent/Emerging Christianity. I am Anglo-Catholic, but once upon a time was very enchanted by the Emergent/Emerging Movement, but I am having to re-evaluate it.

Blessings…Brian Pickard <
Seminarian, Anglican Church in North America

]]> By: Sibyl http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/comment-page-1/#comment-12676 Sibyl Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:49:22 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/#comment-12676 Better Convergent (the restoration of the fully orbed and fully alive church that is sacramental, charismatic, evangelical) than Emergent, a movement that is self-consciously trying to push away from tradition without fully understanding its essentials and necessities (holiness and adherence to God's Word and His definitions of Truth, Love and Life). The Holy Spirit builds up, purifies and unifies the Church (the individual and the group) into agreement with God's word and will. Convergent is a restoration of the old and ancient and true and is congruent with the work of the Holy Spirit. Emergent is a post-modern deconstruction movement and breaks from the old and true in accomodating the flesh and the natural mind and resists the sanctifying purposes of the Holy Spirit. Better Convergent (the restoration of the fully orbed and fully alive church that is sacramental, charismatic, evangelical) than Emergent, a movement that is self-consciously trying to push away from tradition without fully understanding its essentials and necessities (holiness and adherence to God’s Word and His definitions of Truth, Love and Life).

The Holy Spirit builds up, purifies and unifies the Church (the individual and the group) into agreement with God’s word and will. Convergent is a restoration of the old and ancient and true and is congruent with the work of the Holy Spirit. Emergent is a post-modern deconstruction movement and breaks from the old and true in accomodating the flesh and the natural mind and resists the sanctifying purposes of the Holy Spirit.

]]> By: Alice C. Linsley http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/comment-page-1/#comment-12659 Alice C. Linsley Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:54:15 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/#comment-12659 May God bring them home to the Church that has never changed the message - Eastern Orthodoxy. May they discover that there is unity of witness between Holy Tradition and Holy Scripture. May God bring them home to the Church that has never changed the message – Eastern Orthodoxy. May they discover that there is unity of witness between Holy Tradition and Holy Scripture.

]]> By: Donna http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/comment-page-1/#comment-12564 Donna Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:49:34 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/#comment-12564 I am so glad that Bob Maxwell sent this link to us. I know we will enjoy reading your blogs. God is blessing you, Donna and Robert A. Schuller I am so glad that Bob Maxwell sent this link to us. I know we will enjoy reading your blogs. God is blessing you, Donna and Robert A. Schuller

]]> By: Leander Harding Reflects On The Emerging Church « Anglican Ecumenical Society http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/comment-page-1/#comment-12269 Leander Harding Reflects On The Emerging Church « Anglican Ecumenical Society Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:39:25 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/#comment-12269 [...] dioceses in Texas. He’s written a very worth reflection on the TSM conference at his blog, http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/. This is relevant indeed for anyone interested in online ministry – since we are almost [...] [...] dioceses in Texas. He’s written a very worth reflection on the TSM conference at his blog, http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/. This is relevant indeed for anyone interested in online ministry – since we are almost [...]

]]> By: David Wilson http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/comment-page-1/#comment-12256 David Wilson Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:38:35 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/07/the-emergent-church/#comment-12256 two aspects of the emergent movement give me pause an apparent willingness to scuttle doctrine in the pursuit of relevance as found in the writings of bruce mcclaren and his message of generous orthodoxy and the fact that emergents do not use punctuation or capitalization when typing errr i mean keyboarding two aspects of the emergent movement give me pause an apparent willingness to scuttle doctrine in the pursuit of relevance as found in the writings of bruce mcclaren and his message of generous orthodoxy and the fact that emergents do not use punctuation or capitalization when typing errr i mean keyboarding

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