| FOREWORD | | v | |
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| President and CEO, LifeWay Christian Resources |
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| INTRODUCTION | | 1 | |
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| Senior Pastor, Porter Memorial Baptist Church, Lexington, Kentucky; Assistant Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary |
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| THE EMERGING CHURCH: ONE MOVEMENT��TWO STREAMS | | 4 | |
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| Associate Professor of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School |
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| THE EMERGENT/EMERGING CHURCH: A MISSIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE | | 47 | |
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| Director of Life Way Research, Missiologist in Residence, Life Way Christian Resources |
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| PART ONE: BIBLICAL SECTION | |
| A POSTMODERN VIEW OF SCRIPTURE |
| | 92 | |
| NORMAN L. GEISLER AND THOMAS HOWE |
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| Co-Founder and Distinguished Professor of Theology and Apologetics, Veritas Evangelical Seminary; and Thomas Howe, Professor of Bible and Biblical Languages, Director of the Apologetics Program, Southern Evangelical Seminary |
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| A NEW KIND OF INTERPRETATION: BRIAN MCLAREN AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF TASTE |
| | 109 | |
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| Professor of Theological Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary |
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| "EMERGENTS," EVANGELICALS, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF TRUTH: SOME PHILOSOPHICAL AND SPIRITUAL LESSONS |
| | 129 | |
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| Associate Professor of Ethics and Christian Apologetics, Biola University |
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| PART TWO: THEOLOGICAL SECTION | |
| EMERGENT/EMERGING CHRISTOLOGIES |
| | 158 | |
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| Research Professor of New Testament Studies, Professor of Spiritual Development and Culture, Dallas Theological Seminary |
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| THE EMERGING CHURCH AND SALVATION |
| | 187 | |
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| Assistant to the Senior Vice President for Academic Administration, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary |
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| THE CHURCH ACCORDING TO EMERGENT/EMERGING CHURCH |
| | 219 | |
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| Professor of Systematic Theology, Associate Dean of Theological Studies, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary |
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| PART THREE: PRACTICAL SECTION | |
| THE EMERGING CHURCH AND ETHICAL CHOICES: THE CORINTHIAN MATRIX |
| | 262 | |
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| President, Professor of Theology and Preaching, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary |
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| TO PREACH OR NOT TO PREACH |
| | 281 | |
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| Senior Pastor; Riverside Baptist Church, Denver, Colorado |
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| THE EMERGING CHURCH AND EVANGELISM |
| | 308 | |
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| Dean, Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism, and Church Growth; Vice President for Academic Programming; William Walker Brookes Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary |
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| CONCLUSION | | 334 | |
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| Associate Vice President Pr Extension Education and Applied Ministries: Director of Research Doctoral Studies, Billy Graham School; Assistant Professor of Evangelism and Applied Apologetics, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary |
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| NAME INDEX | | 337 | |
| SUBJECT INDEX | | 340 | |
| SCRIPTURE INDEX | | 342 | |
