the subversion of the lectern

23Nov08

The Subversion of the Lectern
a parable by Tyler Priest
it is told that after the Protestant Reformation had taken root throughout Europe, a great bishop of the Catholic church was invited to deliver the homily at a neighboring sister church in Rome. what he did forever stuck in the minds of the parishioners there.
in this [...]

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Tags: parable, emergent, Greg Newton, disciples fellowship, Roman Catholicism, eucharist, Holy Communion, Protestant Reformation, Counter-Reformation, preaching, experiential faith, deconstruction, logocentric, Christocentric, table, Christian worship

[vi] emerging then, emerging now: Barton Stone and the post-restorationists

08Aug08

Kester Smith: keeping Austin theologically weird, in a very good way, of course

In line with Barton Stone, Post-Restorationist church planters, along with their communities, have experienced tension within their initial heritage—some to a lesser degree than others. For Greg Newton of Disciples’ Fellowship (Birmingham, AL), his Church of Christ identity changed while in the [...]

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Tags: post-restorationist, barton stone, restoration movement, church planting, stone-campbell movement, missional, missio dei, Greg Newton, Kester Smith, Jared Looney, bronx fellowship, immanuel austin, disciples fellowship

[1ntro] emerging then, emerging now: Barton Stone and the post-restorationists

08Jul08

the man, the exile, the forerunner
If you’re an emerging underling like me, you do what missiologists/anthropologists with PhD’s from Fuller tell you. So the next few posts will be pieces from a paper I wrote that started with some research I did in graduate school as Chris Flanders’ graduate assistant. Initially, [...]

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Tags: barton stone, Ben Cheek, Brian McLaren, Chris Flanders, church planting, Doug Foster, emerging church, Greg Newton, Jared Looney, Kester Smith, missional, Nic Acosta, post-restorationist, restoration movement, stone-campbell movement