Postmodernity & the Emerging Church Movement: Reading Room
Postmodernity and Theology
- Adam, Andrew. Faithful Interpretation: Reading the Bible in a Postmodern World. Fortress Press, 2006; What is Postmodern Biblical Criticism?. Fortress, 1995.
- Adams, Daniel J. Toward a Theological Understanding of Postmodernism, Cross Currents, Vol. 47, Issue 4 (Winter 1997-98).
- Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology. Graham Ward, ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2001.
- Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, ed. Cambridge, 2003.
- Allen, Diogenes. Christian Belief in a Postmodern World: The Full Wealth of Conviction. Westminster John Knox, 1989.
- Batstone, David B. Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity, and the Americas. Routledge, 1997 (and copy).
- Boeven, Lieven. Interrupting Tradition: An Essay on Christian Faith in a Postmodern Context. Eerdmans, 2003.
- Boeven, Lieven, and Lambert Leijssen, eds. Sacramental Presence in a Postmodern Context. Peeters, 2001.
- Borgmann, Albert. Crossing the Postmodern Divide. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
- Brueggemann, Walter. Texts under Negotiation: The Bible and Postmodern Imagination. 3rd edition. Fortress, 1993.
- Caputo, John. God, the Gift, and Postmodernism. Indiana University Press, 1999; Against Ethics: Contributions to a Poetics of Obligation with Constant Reference to Deconstruction. 2nd ed. Indiana University Press, 1993.
- Cobb, John B. Postmodernism and Public Policy: Reframing Religion, Culture, Education, Sexuality, Class, Race, Politics, and the Economy. SUNY, 2001.
- Collins, John J. The Bible after Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age. Eerdmans, 2005 (also copy).
- Cupitt, Don. Mysticism after Modernity. Wiley-Blackwell, 1998.
- Downing, Crystal L. How Postmodernism Serves (my) Faith: Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art. InterVarsity, 2006.
- Gallagher, Michael P. The Postmodern Situation: Friend or Foe?, in: Clashing Symbols: An Introduction to Faith and Culture. Rev`d ed. Paulist Press, 2003. Ch. 8, pp. 98-114 (also copy).
- Greer, Robert C. Mapping Postmodernism: A Survey of Christian Options. InterVarsity, 2003.
- Grenz, Stanley J. A Primer on Postmodernism. Eerdmans, 1996.
- Grenz, Stanley J. and John R. Franke. Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context. Westminster John Knox, 2001.
- Griffin, David Ray. Sacred Interconnections: Postmodern Spirituality, Political Economy, and Art. SUNY, 1990; God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology. SUNY, 1989 (also copy); (ed.), Spirituality and Society: Postmodern Visions. SUNY, 1988 (also copy).
- Griffin, David R., William A. Beardslee, and Joe Holland. Varieties of Postmodern Theology. SUNY, 1989 (also copy).
- Groothuis, Douglas R. Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism. InterVarsity, 2000.
- Hiebert, Paul. The Missiological Implications of Epistemological Shifts: Affirming Truth in a Modern/postmodern World. Continuum, 1999.
- Hunt, Stephen. Postmodernist Perspectives: The Yet and the Not-Yet, in: Religion and Everyday Life. Routledge, 2005. Ch. 2, pp. 28-43 (also copy 1; copy 2); cf. also ch. 6: From Church to Choice: Transformations in Contemporary Christianity (check copies above for missing pages).
- Hyman, Gavin. The Predicament of Postmodern Theology: Radical Orthodoxy Or Nihilist Textualism?. Westminster John Knox, 2001.
- Ingraffia, Brian D. Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God`s Shadow. Rev`d ed. Cambridge, 1995.
- Jobling, David, Tina Pippin, and Ronald Schleifer, eds. The Postmodern Bible Reader. Wiley-Blackwell, 2001.
- Kirk, J. Andrew. The Future of Reason, Science and Faith: Following Modernity and Post-Modernity. Ashgate, 2007.
- Küng, Hans. Karl Barth: Theology in the Transition to Postmodernity, in: Great Christian Thinkers. Continuum, 1994. Ch. 7, pp. 185-211.
- Lundin, Roger. The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World. Eerdmans, 1993.
- Lyon, David. Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times. Wiley-Blackwell, 2000.
- Michener, Ronald T. Engaging Deconstructive Theology. Ashgate, 2007.
- Milbank, John, Catherine Pickstock, and Graham Ward, eds. Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology. Routledge, 1999 (also copy 1 and copy 2).
- Muldoon, Tim. Postmodern Spirituality and the Ignatian Fundamentum, in: A Jesuit Education Reader. Ed. George W. Traub. Loyola Press, 2008. Pp. 285-298.
- Oden, Thomas C. After Modernity–What? Agenda for Theology. Zondervan, 1992.
- Osborne, Kenan B. Christian Sacraments in a Postmodern World: A Theology for the Third Millennium. Paulist, 1999.
- Patterson, Sue M. Realist Christian Theology in a Postmodern Age. Cambridge, 1999.
- Phillips, Timothy R., and Dennis L. Okholm. Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World. InterVarsity, 1995.
- Poloma, Margaret, and Ralph Hood. Blood and Fire: Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church . NYU Press, 2008.
- Rayment-Pickard, Hugh. Impossible God: Derrida`s Theology. Ashgate, 2003.
- Riggs, John W. Postmodern Christianity. Continuum, 2003.
- Smith, James K. A. Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2006.
- Tanner, Kenneth, and Christopher Alan Hall, eds. Ancient & Postmodern Christianity: Paleo-Orthodoxy in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Thomas C. Oden. InterVarsity, 2002.
- Taylor, Mark C. Erring: A Postmodern A/Theology. University of Chicago Press, 1987
- Thacker, Justin. Postmodernism and the Ethics of Theological Knowledge. Ashgate, 2007.
- Valantasis, Richard. Centuries of Holiness: Ancient Spirituality Refracted for a Postmodern Age. Continuum, 2005.
- Van Erp, Stephan, and André Lascaris, eds. Who Is Afraid of Postmodernism? Challenging Theology for a Society in Search of Identity. LIT, 2006.
- Walsh, Brian and Sylvia Keesmaat. Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire. InterVarsity, 2004.
- Ward, Graham. Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory. 2nd rev`d ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000; Christ and Culture. Rev`d ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2005; Cities of God. Routledge, 2000 (also copy 1 and copy 2).
- Waters, Brent. From Human to Posthuman: Christian Theology and Technology in a Postmodern World. Ashgate, 2006.
- Wells, David F. Above All Earthly Pow`rs: Christ in a Postmodern World. Eerdmans, 2006.
- Westphal, Merold. Overcoming Onto-Theology. Toward a Postmodern Christian Faith. Fordham, 2001 (and copy); Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought. Indiana University Press, 1999.
- Wilson, Jonathan R. Practicing Church: Evangelical Ecclesiologies at the End of Modernity, in: The Community of the Word: Toward an Evangelical Ecclesiology. Ed. Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier. InterVarsity, 2005. Pp. 63-74.
- Wyschogrod, Edith. Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy. University of Chicago Press, 1990 (also copy 1; copy 2).
- Yates, Paul. Postmodernism, Spirituality and Education in Late Modernity, in: Spiritual Education: Cultural, Religious, and Social Differences: New Perspectives for the 21st Century. Ed. Jane Erricker, Cathy Ota, and Clive Erricker. Sussex Academic, 2001. Ch. 16, pp. 207-219 (also copy 1 and copy 2).
- See also our Christian Theology Reading Room for more resources in Christian Theology.
Brian McLaren slide show: “Emerging Missional Church”
Emerging Church Movements/Conversations
- Anderson, Ray. An Emergent Theology for Emerging Churches. InterVarsity, 2006.
- Bader-Saye, Scott. The Emergent Matrix: A New Kind of Church?, Christian Century, November 30, 2004.
- Beckwith, Ivy. Postmodern Children`s Ministry: Ministry to Children in the 21st Century. Zondervan, 2004.
- Brasher, Brenda E. Give Me That Online Religion. Rutgers University Press, 2004.
- Burke, Spencer, with Colleen Pepper. Making Sense of Church: Eavesdropping on Emerging Conversations about God, Community, and Culture. Zondervan, 2003.
- Campolo, Tony. Letters to a Young Evangelical. Basic Books, 2006.
- Campolo, Tony, and Mary Darling. The God of Intimacy and Action: Reconnecting Ancient Spiritual Practices, Evangelism, and Justice. John Wiley and Sons, 2007.
- Careaga, Andrew. Eministry: Connecting with the Net Generation. Kregel, 2001.
- Carson, D.A. Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church: Understanding a Movement and its Implications. Zondervan, 2005; The Dangers and Delights of Postmodernism, Vol. 12, No. 4 (July/August 2003).
- Conder, Tim and Dan B. Allender. The Church in Transition: The Journey of Existing Churches Into the Emerging Culture. Zondervan, 2006.
- Creps, Earl. Emerging Church/Emerging Culture: Resource List (Oct. 2004 edition). Pp. 104.
- Croft, Steven, ed. Mission-Shaped Questions: Defining Issues for Today`s Church. Church House Publishing, 2008.
- Crouch, Andy, et al., eds. The Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives. Zondervan, 2003.
- Dawson, Lorne L., and Douglas E. Cowan, eds. Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet. Routledge, 2004 (copy copy 1; copy 2).
- De Vine, Mark. The Emerging Church: One Movement–Two Streams. Forthcoming overview chapter in E3: Evangelicals Engaging Emergent. Ed. William D. Henard and Adam W. Greenway. Broadman & Holman, 2009. Pp. 50.
- Driscoll, Mark. Confessions of a Reformission Rev: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church. Rev`d ed. Zondervan, 2006; A Pastoral Perspective on the Emerging Church, Criswell Theological Review, vol. 3, no. 2 (Spring 2006): 87-93.
- Fitz-Gibbon, Jane, and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon. A New Monasticism, CFR: Community of Friends in Renewal, Occasional paper (n.d).
- Flory, Richard W., and Donald E. Miller. Finding Faith: The Spiritual Quest of the Post-boomer Generation. Rutgers University, 2008.
- George, Susan. The Church and the Internet, in: Religion and Technology in the 21st Century: Faith in the e-World. Idea Group, 2006. Ch 7, pp. 129-154.
- Gibbs, Eddie. Preparing Leaders for an Emerging Church. In: Mission to the World: Communicating the Gospel in the 21st Century. Ed. T. Engelvisken. Oxford Centre of Mission Studies. Pp. 329-340.
- Gibbs, Eddie, and Ryan K. Bolger. Emerging Churches; Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005.
- Greenway, Adam, and Thom S. Rainer, eds. Evangelicals Engaging Emergent: A Discussion of the Emergent Church Movement. B&H Publishing Group, 2009.
- Hammett, John S. An Ecclesiological Assessment of the Emerging Church Movement. Pp. 11 (no date).
- Hansen, Collin. Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist`s Journey with the New Calvinists. Good News Publishers, 2008.
- Harrold, Philip. Stealing Past the Watchful Dragons: C.S. Lewis`s Incarnational Aesthetics and Today`s Emerging Imagination, in: C.S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy, Vol. 3: Apologist, Philosopher, & Theologian. Ed. Bruce L. Edwards. Greenwood, 2007. Ch. 8, pp. 183-208.
- Højsgaard, Morten T., and Margit Warburg, eds. Religion and Cyberspace. Routledge, 2005 (also copy 1; copy 2).
- Hunsberger, George R. ed. The Church between Gospel and Culture. The Emerging Mission in North America. Eerdmans, 1996.
- Johnson, Gary L.W., and Ronald N. Gleason, eds. Reforming Or Conforming?: Post-Conservative Evangelicals and the Emerging Church. Good News, 2008.
- Jones, Tony. The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. John Wiley and Sons, 2009 (and copy 2008); Church Planting from the Ground Up. College Press, 2004; Postmodern Youth Ministry: Exploring Cultural Shift, Creating Holistic Connections, Cultivating Authentic Community. Zondervan, 2001.
- Karaflogka, Anastasia. Religion on – Religion in Cyberspace, in: Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular, and Alternative Futures. Ed. G. Davie, L. Woodhead, and P. Heelas. Ashgate, 2003. Ch. 16, pp. 191-202.
- Kimball, Dan. They Like Jesus But Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations. Zondervan, 2007; Emerging Worship: Creating Worship Gatherings for New Generations. Zondervan, 2004.
- Larson, Elena. Deeper Understanding, Deeper Ties: Taking Faith Online, in: Society Online: The Internet in Context. Ed. Philip N. Howard and Steve Jones. SAGE, 2004. Pp. 43-56.
- Lee, Shayne, and Phillip Luke Sinitiere. “A New Kind of Christian: Brian McLaren and the Emerging Church,” in: Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace. NYU Press, 2009. Ch. 4, pp. 77-106.
- Liederbach, Mark, and Alvin L. Reid. The Convergent Church: Missional Worshippers in an Emerging Culture. Kregel, 2009.
- Long, Jimmy. Emerging Hope: A Strategy for Reaching the Postmodern Generations. 2nd, revised. InterVarsity, 2004.
- McLaren, Brian D. Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope. Thomas Nelson, 2007; A Generous Orthodoxy. Zondervan, 2006; The Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix. Revised. Zondervan, 2003; A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, …. Zondervan, 2006 (and copy); The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003. See also individual published articles by McLaren posted on his webpage; articles on McLaren).
- McKnight, Scot. McLaren Emerging, Christianity Today, Sept. 2008; Five Streams of the Emerging Church, Christianity Today, Feb. 2007; What is the Emerging Church? Fall Contemporary Issues Conference, Westminster Theological Seminary. Oct 26-27, 2006. Pp. 30.
- Monts, Aaron J. The Emerging Church. Report presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the course TH710 Insights for Ministering to Contemporary Minds, Lincoln Seminary. Nov. 2005.
- Morgenthaler, Sally. Worship Evangelism: Inviting Unbelievers Into the Presence of God. 2nd ed. Zondervan, 1999.
- Moynagh, Michael. Emergingchurch.intro. Kregel, 2005.
- Myers, Joseph R., Renee N Altson, Ivy Beckwith. The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups. Zondervan, 2003.
- Pagitt, Doug. A Christianity Worth Believing: Hope-filled, Open-armed, Alive-and-well Faith for the Left Out, Left Behind, and Let Down in Us All. John Wiley and Sons, 2009; Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church. Zondervan, 2004.
- Partridge, Christopher H. Cyberspirituality, in: The Enchantment of the West. Vol. II: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture, and Occulture. Continuum, 2006. Ch. 4, pp. 135-164 (also copy)
- Peatross, Fred. A Mobile Church for E.P.I.C. Times: Moving Across Faith Community Borders. iUniverse, 2003.
- Pennington, David. The Emergence of the Emerging Church: What’s Oozing from ‘the Ooze’?. Paper presented at the National Leadership Conference, Calvary Baptist Seminary, Feb. 2006.
- Perriman, Andrew. Otherways: In Search for an Emerging Theology. Lulu.Com, 2007.
- Piper, John, and Justin Taylor, eds. The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World. Good News, 2007.
- Rowell, Andrew. Innovative Ecclesiastical Practices: Emerging Churches in Dialogue with Dietrich Bonhoeffer. January 2007. Pp. 47. (See also our Bonhoeffer Reading Room).
- Savage, Carl, William Presnell. Narrative Research in Ministry. A Postmodern Research Approach for Faith Communities. Wayne Oates Institute. 2008.
- Schwartzentruber, Michael, ed. The Emerging Christian Way: Thoughts, Stories, and Wisdom for a Faith of Transformation. Wood Lake, 2006.
- Smith, R. Scott. Brian McLaren, the Emerging Church, and the Issue of Foundationalism, Knowing and Doing (Winter 2006): 1-4.
- Suderman, Robert J. Missional Ecclesiology and Leadership: Toward an Understanding of the Emerging Church. (Mennonite Church Resource Centre)
- Sweet, Leonard I. SoulTsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture. Zondervan, 2001.
- Sweet, Leonard I., Brian D. McLaren and Jerry Haselmayer. A Is for Abductive: The Language of the Emerging Church. Zondervan, 2003.
- Taylor, Steve. The Out of Bounds Church? Learning to Create a Community of Faith in a Culture of Change. Zondervan, 2005.
- Thumma, Scott. The Shape of Things to Come: Megachurches, Emerging Churches, and Other New Religious Structures, in: Faith in America: Changes, Challenges, New Directions. Ed. Charles H. Lippy. Greenwood, 2006. Ch. 10, pp. 85-206.
- Webber, Robert. Worship Old and New. Rev`d ed. Zondervan, 1994.
- Webber, Robert, John Burke, Dan Kimball, Mark Driscoll, Doug Pagitt, Karen M. Ward. Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches: Five Perspectives. Zondervan, 2007.
- Withrow, Lisa R. Claiming New Life: Process-Church for the Future. Christian Board of Publication, 2008.
Missional Church
Postmodernism: Philosophical / Cultural Sources
- Aylesworth, Gary. Postmodernism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online), 2005.
- Drolet, Michael, ed. The Postmodernism Reader: Foundational Texts. Routledge, 2004 (also copy 1, and copy 2).
- Natoli, Joseph P., and Linda Hutcheon, eds. A Postmodern Reader. SUNY Press, 1993 (also copy).
- Sim, Stuart. The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism 2nd ed. Routledge, 2005 (also copy and 1st edition).
- Taylor, Victor E., and Charles E. Winquist, eds. Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. Taylor & Francis, 2001 (also copy 1 and copy 2).
- Woods, Tim. Beginning Postmodernism. Manchester University Press, 1999.
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- Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Robert Audi, ed. Cambridge University, 1995. Pp. 1001 (available as eBook to the Tyndale community only over the Gale Virtual Reference Library).
- EpistemeLinks: Philosophy Resources on the Internet
- RS-Web: Philosophy Links
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Articles, Essays
- See Christianity Today`s special collection of articles on The Emergence of Emergent.
- Theological Journals Search (theological journals for which full text is freely available on the Internet; links to many good sources).
- See Tyndale’s eJournal Database (Choose EBSCOhost database; log in; choose “EBSCOhost” and then “All” databases; over 170 full-text theological journals available to you from home; for a few additional journals, go back to Tyndale Journal Database and choose the ProQuest Religion or JSTOR databases); see list of Tyndale’s academic ejournals with full-text articles for download.
- Search with PDF Article Search Engine
Other Sources on the WWW
- Brian D. McLaren
- Deep Church.org.uk
- Emergent Village (Brian McLaren et al, with blogs, podcasts, etc.); see also Emerging Church Resources: A Beginners Reference Guide
- Vintage Faith (Dan Kimball)
- Nidus Festival: faith.arts.justice (Festival: Toronto, Sept 26, 2009)
- Lindisfarne Community: A Neo-Monastic Network with a Heart for Spirituality and Service
- Fresh Expressions Canada (also UK main site).
- Tall-Skinny-Kiwi
- Next-Wave: Church and Culture
- Emerging Church.Info
- The Ooze: Conversation for the Journey
- Mosaic (Pasadena, Calif.)
- Alternative Worship
- Mosaic Church (Austin, TX)
- Open Source Theology: Collaborative Theology for the Emerging Church
- Search Google videos for terms like: “postmodernism and the emerging church”, “emergent church”; or search for videos by/with authors above (e.g., Brian McLaren, Eddie Gibbs, Mark Driscoll, Tony Jones, etc).
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How do I cite my sources?
See “Turabian” and “Chicago” Styles or SBL Handbook of Style (similar to Turabian; cf. sec. 7)
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