I looked around a bit, I could not quite find anything that quickly would explain the term “Emergent/Catholic”. Could you point to something with that label in it: something you wrote or something someone else wrote?
I think you got a handle on Catholic, for good or ill. For Emergent, check out Wikipedia’s article on the Emerging Church or Brian McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy, the book that is probably the closest thing to a “manifesto” of the Emerging Christianity movement.
Basically, Emerging/Emergent Christianity is a “conversation” in postmodern theology, and one which takes seriously feminist, gay/lesbian, environmentalist, mystical, liberationist, and other voices that challenge and contest modernist Christianity.
I added the graphic to the ever-increasing list of items in my blog’s left margin. It just barely fits! It’s currently butting up against my May 23rd post about the Blessed Virgin Mary.
I agree with much of what the emergent movement stands for, but most emergents are evangelical, which I am not. I’m also sure that some emergents would not be comfortable sharing their label with a big ol’ gay Sufipalian like myself. I’m going to call myself post-emergent. Maybe I’ll start a movement! The Post-Emergent Revolution has begun!
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verdant_rhythm
I looked around a bit, I could not quite find anything that quickly would explain the term “Emergent/Catholic”. Could you point to something with that label in it: something you wrote or something someone else wrote?
Carl McColman
I think you got a handle on Catholic, for good or ill. For Emergent, check out Wikipedia’s article on the Emerging Church or Brian McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy, the book that is probably the closest thing to a “manifesto” of the Emerging Christianity movement.
Basically, Emerging/Emergent Christianity is a “conversation” in postmodern theology, and one which takes seriously feminist, gay/lesbian, environmentalist, mystical, liberationist, and other voices that challenge and contest modernist Christianity.
verdant_rhythm
Brian McLaren says he’s a “Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-Hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished CHRISTIAN”
he has more labels than you, Carl…
…or me…
HOW DARE HE? (LOL)
Thanx for the info… I wonder what post-denominational priest Fr. Matthew Fox thinks of it?
gratefulbear
I added the graphic to the ever-increasing list of items in my blog’s left margin. It just barely fits! It’s currently butting up against my May 23rd post about the Blessed Virgin Mary.
I agree with much of what the emergent movement stands for, but most emergents are evangelical, which I am not. I’m also sure that some emergents would not be comfortable sharing their label with a big ol’ gay Sufipalian like myself. I’m going to call myself post-emergent. Maybe I’ll start a movement! The Post-Emergent Revolution has begun!
Carl McColman
I’m going to up your ante, and start my own movement: “Post-Emergent Revolutionary Visionaries Engaging Radical-Themed Sensationalism.”
Just call us “P.E.R.V.E.R.T.S.” for short…