How (Not) To Speak Of God
From Ikon
The emerging church is still an embryonic movement yet it currently faces a serious challenge, the outcome of which will decide whether it is little more than a neo-evangelical sociological strategy, designed to address the decline in church attendance or a radical re-envisaging of faith that communicates a vital message of transformation to the wider church. The next few years will help to decide whether this fragile, fractured movement is nothing more than the latest re-imagining of the evangelical community or a genuinely post-evangelical move beyond it.
This book is written with the firm belief that the emerging church has the potential to offer a singular, unprecedented message of transformation that will revolutionise the theological and moral architecture of the Christian community. Its challenge is as simple as it is profound… if the emerging church does not become theologically self-aware, understanding its unique contribution to the body of Christ, it will end up as little more than the latest attempt to make evangelicalism palatable to a younger generation through the introduction of video projectors and flashing lights.
Cover art by John Macormac
Contents
Forward by Brian McLaren
Acknowledgements
Introduction The Secret
Section One Heretical orthodoxy: From right belief to believing in the right way
Chapter One God rid me of God
Chapter Two The Aftermath of Theology
Chapter Three A/theology as Icon
Chapter Four The God Shaped Hole
Chapter Five The Third Mile
Section Two Toward orthopraxis: Taking theory to church
Service One Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani
Service Two Prodigal
Service Three Sins of the Father
Service Four A/theism
Service Five Advent
Service Six Judas
Service Seven Prosperity
Service Eight Heresy
Service Nine Corpus Christi
Service Ten Queer
