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Re: What does the emerging church stand for?

Re: What does the emerging church stand for?

An outmoded theology may inform current political activity, but I’m not sure that your suggested re-examination is, should, or can be, a prior task (my apologies if I’ve misread you here).

I agree that theology should go hand-in-hand. My concern was not so much to give priority to theology (much as I might personally wish that to be the case!) as to slow down praxis a bit, enough to listen to the theologians. My impression has been that the emerging church phenomenon has been driven largely by practitioners of one form or another. Fine. But changes in praxis inevitably raise theological questions and time must be given to answer them. The danger, otherwise, is that the old theology simply gets re-consolidated in a new set of practices.