Engage the latest thinking of the emerging church  
  
Since the emerging church started grabbing headlines early this millennium, it has been labeled many different things. A movement. A conversation. A friendship. Some even call it a scandal.   
  
An Emergent Manifesto of Hope is a coming together of divergent voices into a collection of writings that will bring you into the latest thinking of the emerging church. You will have a front-row seat as both established leaders and up-and-comers in this influential international movement grapple with how to be faithful Christians in today's ever-changing cultural context. More than twenty-five contributors present honest, compelling, and at times highly personal reflections on topics like spiritual formation, social justice, sex, church and community, evangelism, racial reconciliation, postcolonialism, and the Bible.  
  
As you engage these reflections, you will come away with a deeper understanding of the hopeful imagination that drives the emerging church. And you will appreciate the beauty of a conversation that is continually being formed and, by its unique nature, defies one univocal message.   
  
  
Doug Pagitt (MA, Bethel Seminary) is pastor of Solomon's Porch in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and author of A Christianity Worth Believing, Preaching Re-Imagined, Church Re-Imagined, and BodyPrayer.   
  
Tony Jones (MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary) is national coordinator of Emergent Village (www.emergentvillage.com). He is currently working on his PhD in practical theology at Princeton and has authored several books, including The New Christians, Postmodern Youth Ministry, The Sacred Way, and Divine Intervention.

Doug Pagitt (MA, Bethel Seminary) is pastor of Solomon's Porch in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and author of Preaching Re-Imagined, Church Re-Imagined, and BodyPrayer.   
  
Tony Jones (MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary) is currently working on his PhD in practical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Formerly the minister to youth and young adults at the Colonial Church of Edina in Edina, Minnesota, Jones has authored several books, including Postmodern Youth Ministry, Soul Shaper, Divine Intervention, and Pray.

Many have heard of the emerging church, but few people feel like they have a handle on what the emerging church believes and represents. Is it a passing fad led by disenfranchised neo-evangelicals? Or is it the future of the church at large?  
Now available in trade paper, An Emergent Manifesto of Hope represents a coming together of divergent voices into a conversation that pastors, students, and thoughtful Christians can now learn from and engage in. This unprecedented collection of writings includes articles by some of the most important voices in the emergent conversation, including Brian McLaren, Dan Kimball, and Sally Morgenthaler. It also introduces some lesser known but integral players representing "who's next" within the emerging church. The articles cover a broad range of topics, such as spirituality, theology, multiculturalism, postcolonialism, sex, evangelism, and many others. Anyone who wants to know what the emerging church is all about needs to start here.

Now in paper, An Emergent Manifesto of Hope represents a coming together of divergent voices into a conversation that pastors, students, and thoughtful Christians can now learn from and engage in.

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Introduction: Friendship, Faith, and Going Somewhere Together

Part 1: A People of Hope Emergent—a Generative Friendship of Missional Christians

1. Growing Pains: The Messy and Fertile Process of Becoming

2. Meeting Jesus at the Bar: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Evangelism

3. What Would Huckleberry Do? A Relational Ethic as the Jesus Way

4. The Postmodern Parent: Shifting Paradigms for the Ultimate Act of Re-Creation

5. The Art of Emergence: Being God's Handiwork

Part 2: Communities of Hope New Ways, Questions, and Outcomes for Churches of Our Day 

6. An Ever-Renewed Adventure of Faith: Notes from a Community

7. Jailhouse Faith: A Community of Jesus in an Unlikely Place

8. The Existing Church/Emerging Church Matrix: Collision, Credibility, Missional Collaboration, and Generative Friendship

9. The American Catholic Merger-Church: A Too Small Answer

10. Presbymergent: The Story of One Mainliner's Quest to Be a Loyal Radical

Part 3: A Hopeful Faith Christianity and the “God of Good Hope”

11. Following Jesus into Culture: Emerging Church as Social Movement

12. Church Emerging: Or Why I Still Use the Word Postmodern but with Mixed Feelings

13. The End of Reinvention: Mission Beyond Market Adoption Cycles

14. Converting Christianity: The End and Beginning of Faith

Part 4: A Hopeful Way Forward  Theology of Practice, Practice of Theology 

15. Leadership in a Flattened World: Grassroots Culture and the Demise of the CEO Model

16. The Sweet Problem of Inclusiveness: Finding Our God in the Other

17. Orthoparadoxy: Emerging Hope for Embracing Difference

18. Humble Theology: Re-exploring Doctrine While Holding On to Truth

19. Leading from the Margins: The Role of Imagination in Our Changing Context

20. Digging Up the Past: Karl Barth (the Reformed Giant) as Friend to the Emerging Church

Part 5: Hopeful Activism  The Jesus Way in the Realities of Life 

21. A Pound of Social Justice: Beyond Fighting for a Just Cause

22. Emergent Kissing: Authenticity and Integrity in Sexuality

23. Our Report Card in the Year 2057: A Reflection on Women's Rights, Poverty, and Oppression

24. Practicing Pentecost: Discovering the Kingdom of God amid Racial Fragmentation

25. Restoring Honor in the Land: Why the Emerging Church Can't Dodge the Issue

Afterword: This Is Just the Beginning: Living Our Great-Grandchildren’s History 

Notes

Many have heard of the emerging church, but few people feel like they have a handle on what the emerging church believes and represents. Is it a passing fad led by disenfranchised neo-evangelicals? Or is it the future of the church at large?  
Now available in trade paper,An Emergent Manifesto of Hoperepresents a coming together of divergent voices into a conversation that pastors, students, and thoughtful Christians can now learn from and engage in. This unprecedented collection of writings includes articles by some of the most important voices in the emergent conversation, including Brian McLaren, Dan Kimball, and Sally Morgenthaler. It also introduces some lesser known but integral players representing"who's next" within the emerging church. The articles cover a broad range of topics, such as spirituality, theology, multiculturalism, postcolonialism, sex, evangelism, and many others. Anyone who wants to know what the emerging church is all about needs to start here.

Many have heard of the emerging church, but few people feel like they have a handle on what the emerging church believes and represents. Is it a passing fad led by disenfranchised neo-evangelicals? Or is it the future of the church at large? Now available in trade paper, An Emergent Manifesto of Hope represents a coming together of divergent voices into a conversation that pastors, students, and thoughtful Christians can now learn from and engage in. This unprecedented collection of writings includes articles by some of the most important voices in the emergent conversation, including Brian McLaren, Dan Kimball, and Sally Morgenthaler. It also introduces some lesser known but integral players representing "who's next" within the emerging church. The articles cover a broad range of topics, such as spirituality, theology, multiculturalism, postcolonialism, sex, evangelism, and many others. Anyone who wants to know what the emerging church is all about needs to start here.

Doug Pagitt (MA, Bethel Seminary) is pastor of Solomon's Porch in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and author of Preaching Re-Imagined, Church Re-Imagined, and BodyPrayer. Tony Jones (MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary) is currently working on his PhD in practical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Formerly the minister to youth and young adults at the Colonial Church of Edina in Edina, Minnesota, Jones has authored several books, including Postmodern Youth Ministry, Soul Shaper, Divine Intervention, and Pray.

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