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Starred Review. North American Christianity is presently undergoing a change every bit as radical as the Protestant Reformation, possibly even as monumental as its natal break with Judaism. And it's right on schedule. Tickle, author of God-Talk in America and PW's founding religion editor, observes that Christianity is holding its semimillennial rummage sale of ideas. With an elegance of argument and economy of description, Tickle escorts readers through the centuries of church history leading to this moment and persuasively charts the character of and possibilities for the emerging church. Don't let this book's brevity fool you. It is packed with keen insights about what this great emergence is, how it came to be and where it may be headed. Tickle issues a clear call to acknowledge the inevitability of change, discern the church's new shape and participate responsibly in the transformation. Although Tickle's particular focus excludes the dynamic forces of Asian, African and Central/South American Christianity, this is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the face and future of Christianity. (Oct.)
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*Starred Review* Long an astute observer of religion, Tickle examines a phenomenon she refers to as the Great Emergence, a once-every-500-years trend within Christianity, in which a new and “more vital” form of the religion emerges. She believes such a development is happening now. To make her case, she examines the complex history of Christianity from Copernicus’ heretical idea that the earth circled the sun to the sixteenth-century Great Reformation to the Catholic Counter-Reformation. She also examines the effect on religion of great nineteenth- and twentieth-century cultural and social upheavals including those wrought by Darwin’s Origin of Species; Faraday’s field theory, which became foundational for the technology we all take for granted today; and the theories of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Albert Einstein, and Joseph Campbell. She explores the impact that the rise of the automobile has on Christian worship and church service while also making brief forays into the origins of Pentecostalism, the influence of Karl Marx, Buddhism, Alcoholics Anonymous, recreational drug use, and the changing roles of women and, hence, the notion of the traditional family, in society since World War II. Somehow all these diverse strands come together in a seamless fabric that, at fewer than 200 pages, is small but full of big ideas, a remarkable achievement of synthesis and thoughtful reflections. --June Sawyers --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Baker Books; Reprint edition (September 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 080107102X
ISBN-13: 978-0801071027
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Great survey of Christianity lending perspective to the current religious chaos, and an intelligent read

ByChristopher Auneon September 9, 2014

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I especially recommend this book for those who have become dissatisfied with religious Christianity, and instead describe themselves as “spiritual, not religious.” It brings some perspective to the current chaos and competition among the Christian religions, and helped me gain some clarity as to my own position within the milieu.

Phyllis Tickle’s The Great Emergence is a broad-strokes description of how the Christian religion has gotten to where it is today and how it is currently going through another historical transformation. Tickle uses sophisticated language and some lite references to roughly survey of the evolution of changing authority behind Christian beliefs, including the authority of the Emperor Constantine to form a Bible and clear doctrines, of monasteries which preserved the Bible and doctrines through the Dark Ages and thus anchored them in culture, of the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch and the Roman Pope, and of the Bible as the “Word of God.” She also goes about briefly showing how Christianity debunks its own authorities about every 500 years (not on a strict schedule, but as cultural conditions change and in unison with cultural changes). She concludes with some very specific formative points of the new Emergent and Emerging Christianity, which is in process, but sadly those points get smothered in a lot of other discussion unless one is paying close attention.

Somewhat wordy, but well worth reading. Tickle’s book helps me to get a handle on the history of church and institutionalized religion and their relationship to several elements of current culture that are changing both church and religion. She also gave me some very specific ideas of some forces that are clearly influencing and forming the Christianity of the next 500 years.

This is a great book for the sincere spiritual seeker coming out of the Christian tradition. www.ChristopherAune.com

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Merely the church's latest 'rummage sale'.

ByChristopheron July 5, 2015

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Puts recent developments in Western Christianity in an historical context. Argues convincingly that what is happening today is part of an essentially 500 year repeating pattern of change and revitalization involving, most critically, the question of "what is our authority?" This change and revitalization involves not just the church but the patterns of thought of the society at large. What is most helpful and insightful about the book is that it doesn't examine the 'emergent movement' primarily from a theological perspective, but from a broad (millennia long) historical one. Tickle's long tenure as editor of the religion department at Publisher's Weekly gives her an informed yet non-partisan vantage point from which to view what's going on in the church today. Her 'rummage sale' metaphor is particularly apt.

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Insight into the New Generation of Church Communities

ByMicki Smithon March 16, 2017

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Well researched; well written, and helpful insights. A good read for anyone interested in today's emerging theological communities.

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Enlightening!

BySam Patriaccaon February 12, 2017

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A very difficult book to read for two reasons, new undefined terminology, and the authors continual use of archaic and dated vocabulary.
She is excellent in stating her thesis, and then bringing the past in to secure a thorough and pointed factual posit to defend her point.
The best part is her grasp of what IS going on in North America primarily, but the world as well, culturally, as it ties into religion. The Emergence is started and upon us. As she says " the cub is now full grown" what it does and where it goes, is for us to watch!

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Great Emergence is a Great Read

ByK. Franke Hillon June 27, 2015

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The world is changing rapidly -- politically, culturally, religiously, economically, and philosophically. Living through these enormous shifts can be bewildering. Phyllis Tickle explains what is going on, how it fits a pattern in Western history, and give some thoughts on what the future may hold for us. Every 500 years Western, Latinized society goes through a huge shift. During these periods we wonder anew what it means to be human, where authority now lies, and how to function as a people; we lose aspects of life that have been meaningful to us even as new ways of living emerge. This book helps the reader understand what is going on and why. Very well written, engaging and easy to understand, The Great Emergence is a fine work that helps its audience find their footing in these challenging times.

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Interesting but simplistic

ByMartinon April 1, 2017

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Interesting, but a rather simplistic read of complex history. Tickle does an OK job of summarizing major events in 2,000 years of history, but she does not do well in clarifying themes and sequences.

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A little far out....but thought-provoking

ByChris LaRosaon November 15, 2016

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I am a gay Christian and I am fully 'deprogrammed' of the oppressive sola scriptura paradigm, but I still cannot mentally shift too far away from basic scriptural truths that I believe to be central to the gospel. My progressive friends won't like this, as PT is an icon in the Prog Xian world, but I struggled with her vision of this idea that there are these huge shifts in spiritual truths every 500+ years, akin to a Solar Hale cycle where the sun changes polarity every 22 years. I was affected by some of her insights and I appreciate her perspective that we must balance scripture with the hard physical/scientific truths of our existence. But this paradigm is a bit too far off the map for me to fully embrace. I will read this in about 5 more years and see if I have a different response.

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Head scratching and enlightening.

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good explanations of things i did not know

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I think this a book that is fooling itself.

Published 12 months ago by J. E. Smith

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