Adam Walker Cleaveland has posted some notes from the “What Is Emergent?” panel discussion held during the joint annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR).
The panel consisted of Brian McLaren, Phyllis Tickle, and Pete Rollins. Tickle gave an introduction to Emergent and its place within the history of Christianity. She talked about how every 500 years the Church has gone through a dramatic revolution and reformation (1517: Protestant Reformation; 1054: East/West Split; 500: popes; etc.).
According to Walker Cleaveland, ”(Tickle) believes that Emergent is the new movement of reformation for this 500 year period. She also is so bold to say that Brian McLaren is to this new reformation what Martin Luther was to the Protestant Reformation.”
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Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.
Kind of like Jesus.
Bartchy, currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA, notes a great gap between the original, early form of church in the first three hundred years of Christianity, and the modern concept of doing church today.
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Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.