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.”
Props to Emergent Village who provided this content.
