I have my copy of Remembering the Future. A good collection of essays. Including one of the first (that I know of) that asks some critical questions around the emerging church by a British academic, albeit one who claims to be 'a fellow traveller' (p.32).
Contents
Introduction: Why Deep Church? - Andrew Walker and Luke Bretherton
1. Recovering Deep Church: Theological and Spiritual Renewal - Andrew Walker (Professor of Theology and Education, KCL)
2. Beyond the Emerging Church? - Luke Bretherton (Lecturer in Theology and Ministry, KCL)
3. Deep Church as Paradosis: On Relating Scripture and Tradition - Andrew Walker
4. Reading Scripture in Congregations: Towards an Ordinary Hermeneutics - Andrew Rogers (PhD student, KCL)
5. 'Deep calls to Deep': Reading Scripture in a Multi-Faith Society - Ben Quash (Dean and Fellow of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge)
6. Holding Together: Catholic Evangelical Worship in the Spirit - Chris Cocksworth (Principal, Ridley Hall Theological College, Cambridge)
7. God's Transforming Presence: Spirit Empowered Worship and its Meditation - Ian Stackhouse (Minister, Guildford Baptist Church)
8. Baptism and Catechesis as Spiritual Formation - Alan Kreider (Associate Professor of Church History and Mission, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary)
9. Education, Discipleship and Community Formation - Mark Wakelin (Methodist Minister and Director of the Guy Chester Centre, London)
10. Mundane Holiness: The Theology and Spirituality of Everyday Life - Luke Bretherton
The Introduction describes the essays as 'accessible attempts - though some more academic than others - to relate the Christian tradition to contemporary concerns and questions about church, mission and ministry'
(xvi). This I think is so helpful in the current climate of fresh expressions and emerging churches appearing here and there. We need a serious engagement with theology that enables us to think through what is happening and perhaps help us see things we might otherwise miss.
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