The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why Phyllis Tickle – 2012 (Reprint Edition), Baker Finished re-reading August, 2013. Best parts to re-read are chapters 1 and 5. Brief Summary: Roughly every 500 years, the church seems to have a “giant rummage sale,” shedding off old ways of being, doctrine, and practice, adopting new […]
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The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why
Posted: January 29, 2014 by Todd in Books, Culture, TheologyTags: change, church history, cultural change, emergence, emergents, emerging church, hyphenateds, Phyllis Tickle, progressives, re-traditioning, rummage sale, The Great Emergence, tradition, traditionalists
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Book Notes – Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Posted: January 29, 2014 by Todd in Books, CultureTags: cultural change, Douglas Rushkoff, narrative, patterns, Present Shock, technology, time, time compression
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now Douglas Rushkoff – 2013, Current Finished August, 2013. Douglas Rushkoff on Twitter: @rushkoff Summary/Notes: Chapter 1– Narrative Collapse – Makes the case that we’ve lost our narrative framework and tend to gravitate towards that which provides meaning/entertainment in the present Narrative Collapse frames that make meaning are being […]