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The Emerging Church : Religion at the Margins / Josh Packard.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion in Politics and Society: Dynamics and DevelopmentsPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781935049760
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.8/3
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Resisting Success -- 2 Developing Hyperlocal Congregations -- 3 Sustaining Permanently Unsettled Lives -- 4 Getting Things Done -- 5 The Appeal of the Emerging Church -- 6 Sustaining Faith, Sustaining Resistance -- Appendix A: Research Method and Design -- Appendix B: Interview Guide -- Appendix C: Emerging Church Texts -- Appendix D: The Anti-Statement of Faith -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: If a church resists rules, rituals, and dogma, what holds it together? Josh Packard explores the inner workings of the Emerging Church, revealing how a movement that rejects organizational trappings and embraces a do-it-yourself ethic has managed to create a distinctive place for itself at the margins of mainstream Christianity. Packard demystifies the beliefs and operations of the loosely connected Emerging Church congregations that developed in direct response to the heavily bureaucratic megachurches. While acknowledging the challenges inherent in sustaining such a movement, he shows that the church succeeds not despite its anti-institutional approach, but because of it. His work offers new insights into the interplay of culture, organizations, and doctrine in today’s religious landscape.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Resisting Success -- 2 Developing Hyperlocal Congregations -- 3 Sustaining Permanently Unsettled Lives -- 4 Getting Things Done -- 5 The Appeal of the Emerging Church -- 6 Sustaining Faith, Sustaining Resistance -- Appendix A: Research Method and Design -- Appendix B: Interview Guide -- Appendix C: Emerging Church Texts -- Appendix D: The Anti-Statement of Faith -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book

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If a church resists rules, rituals, and dogma, what holds it together? Josh Packard explores the inner workings of the Emerging Church, revealing how a movement that rejects organizational trappings and embraces a do-it-yourself ethic has managed to create a distinctive place for itself at the margins of mainstream Christianity. Packard demystifies the beliefs and operations of the loosely connected Emerging Church congregations that developed in direct response to the heavily bureaucratic megachurches. While acknowledging the challenges inherent in sustaining such a movement, he shows that the church succeeds not despite its anti-institutional approach, but because of it. His work offers new insights into the interplay of culture, organizations, and doctrine in today’s religious landscape.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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