The emergence of 'Emergents' - Phyllis Tickle
The emergence of 'Emergents'
By John Longhurst
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/
April 13, 2013
When she was in Winnipeg in 2009, Phyllis Tickle talked about the Great Emergence, a "monumental" shift in Christianity that is changing the church in Europe and North America.
Based on her book The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why, she said it was part of a 500-year cycle that included bringing the church out of the dark ages, the Great Schism between Eastern and Western churches and, most recently, the Protestant Reformation.
These cycles are like giant garage sales, she added, a time when the church takes a look at the stuff it owns and decides to get rid of what it no longer needs.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By John Longhurst
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/
April 13, 2013
When she was in Winnipeg in 2009, Phyllis Tickle talked about the Great Emergence, a "monumental" shift in Christianity that is changing the church in Europe and North America.Based on her book The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why, she said it was part of a 500-year cycle that included bringing the church out of the dark ages, the Great Schism between Eastern and Western churches and, most recently, the Protestant Reformation.
These cycles are like giant garage sales, she added, a time when the church takes a look at the stuff it owns and decides to get rid of what it no longer needs.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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