Embracing Emergence Christianity Phyllis Tickle on the Church’s Next Rummage Sale

Phyllis Tickle is well known for quipping that every 500 years, the Church goes through a giant rummage sale and clears out old forms of spirituality and practice and replaces it with new ones. The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why (Baker Books, 2008) unpacks this thesis and posits that Protestantism is giving way to Emergence Christianity and it’s upon the premise of this book that Embracing Emergence Christianity is based. In conversations with a small group of six young adults  with whom she interacts in this six part study, Tickle unpacks her theories and provides a thoughtful and discussion of Western church history and invites lively interaction around questions of what’s next and where we’re headed.

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