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A is for Abductive: The Language of the Emerging Church
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Item description for A is for Abductive: The Language of the Emerging Church by Leonard Sweet, Brian McLaren & Jerry Haselmayer...
playful, witty, but substantive 'postmodern ministry for dummies-type' book that fills the huge and getting huger hunger for something in one volume that introduces basic concepts and vernacular of 'postmodern ministry.'
A playful, witty, but substantive "postmodern ministry for dummies-type" book that fills the huge and getting huger hunger for something in one volume that introduces basic concepts and vernacular of "postmodern ministry."
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Studio: Zondervan
Pages 352
Dimensions: Length: 8.48" Width: 5.48" Height: 0.99"
Weight: 0.71 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jan 1, 2003
Publisher Zondervan
ISBN 0310243564
ISBN13 9780310243564
UPC 025986243562
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 | Understand emerging culture Mar 31, 2010 |
Leonard Sweet, Brian McLaren and Jerry Haselmayer A is for Abductive: The Language of the Emerging Church (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003)
Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw
Standing on the edge of a new paradigm and quantum changes, this is a primer to help with the transition into a new world of understanding and experience. It is arranged like a dictionary, so you can read from anywhere to get constructive insights into postmodern ministry. It starts with A is for Abductive method: seizing people by the imagination and taking them to another world for a new perspective (important these days for preaching). Other concepts include branding, coaching, deconstruction, emergence and festivals (144 in total) through to Z for Zending: what we may learn from Zen Buddhism in terms of contemplation, compassion and pain. It includes creative exercises (EPICtivities = Experiential, Participatory, Image-rich, Connectivity) like visiting bookshops, reflecting on comedy videos, evaluating websites and golf cart soccer! Like any dictionary, it helps give the language and framework for understanding a new language and world, so that we can be `at home' and intelligible in emerging culture.
Originally reviewed in Darren Cronshaw, `The Emerging Church: Introductory Reading Guide', Zadok Papers, S143 (Summer 2005).
| | |  | I am not a philosopher but... Jan 26, 2010 |
When I first bought this and other emergent church books-I still have a hard time understanding how one definesfundamentalism based on modernism when the whole point of fundamentalism was against modernism, empiricism, rationalism, and skepticism which all basically defined the bible as myth and not true when the very essence of fundamentalism was faith which means we cannot prove we are right(or it really would not be faith if we could) So when mack daddy mclaren defines fundamentalism as out modernizing the modernist-I still fail to see how this is accurate? Can someone please explain this to me? Of course understanding Liberalism in Christianity died quickly after WW2-perhaps energent philosophers think enough time has gone by and we can define fundamentalism whatever we decide to make it since it was "a long time a go" Hopefully people will realize postmodernism is doing nothing but reintroducing modernism.
Of course one could claim Marxism and not see it as a product of modernism and anything is possible | | | | Why can't I give this zero.... Apr 21, 2007 |
| If this is the intellectual might behind the emerging church movement, then it doesn't stand a chance... | | |  | Postmodern gibberish Sep 6, 2006 |
Len Sweet usually writes more with more passion and intelligence that he evidences in this book. Snipets of insight into an eclectic alphabetized list of topics result in a whole lot of next to nothing.
BUT Sweet et al still have a few fascinating things to say -- just not many. | | | | B is for Bite Size Nov 30, 2005 |
This book gives the reader a number of bite size morsels about what to expect in the Emergent "conversation." Unfortunately, that's it! It is merely a very brief survey of a few aspects that the editors have chosen to bring forward. There is no detailed explanations, no arguments, just straight-forward, "this is the way postmodern culture is and this is the way the Emerging Church should be" paragraphs.
Don't be fooled though, some of these concepts are much more thought out than you might think. On the other hand, as a previous reviewer stated, some are not. If you are looking for a description of the Emerging Church, I don't think this is the book you want. But, if you're looking for a few paragraphs about different things they find important, you might want to check this one out. | | | Write your own review about A Is for Abductive
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