It may be difficult

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It may be difficult but its not impossible!
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In your hearts, set apart Christ as Lord. Always
be prepared to give an answer to everyone who
asks you to give the reason for the hope that you
have. But do this with gentleness and
respect... 1 Peter 315-16
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2500 BC
Prehistoric World
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2500 BC - 500 AD
1 AD
500 BC
500 AD
Ancient World
Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Hittite, Assyrian,
Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman empires
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2500 BC - 500 AD
1 AD
500 BC
500 AD
Ancient World
Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Hittite, Assyrian,
Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman empires
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2500 BC - 500 AD
500 AD - 1500 AD
1 AD
500 BC
500 AD
1500 AD
Ancient World
Medieval World
Printing/Gutenberg Caravel/Transport Guns/Infantry
/Artillery Copernicus/Galileo Reformation/Luther
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2500 BC - 500 AD
500 AD - 1500 AD
1 AD
500 BC
500 AD
1500 AD
Ancient World
Medieval World
Printing/Gutenberg Caravel/Transport Guns/Infantry
/Artillery Copernicus/Galileo Reformation/Luther
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The new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The
Element of fire is quite put out The Sun is
lost, and thearth, and no mans wit Can well
direct him where to look for it. Tis all in
peeces, all cohaerance gone All just supply, and
all relation Prince, Subject, Father, Sonne, are
things forgot, For everyman alone thinkes he hath
got To be a Phoenix, and there can bee None of
that kinde, of which he is, but hee. John Donne,
1611 (1572-1631)
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The great chain of being
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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night God
said, "Let Newton be!" and all was
light. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Epitaph
Intended for Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
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1950 AD - ???
1500 AD - 2000 AD
1750 AD
1500 AD
2000 AD
Modern World
Postmodern World
Medieval World
Print/Screen/Internet New Science New Weapons New
Transportation New Spirituality Systems Thinking
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1950 AD - ???
1500 AD - 2000 AD
1750 AD
1500 AD
2000 AD
Modern World
Postmodern World
Medieval World
Print/Screen/Internet New Science New Weapons New
Transportation New Spirituality Systems Thinking
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• Consider that we live in at least three worlds.

Emerging world
Modern world
Pre-modern world
2006
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Themes in Transition

• 1. Conquest, Control, Progress Conservation
• 2. Mechanistic/reductionist
  holistic/systemic
• 3. Analytical
  post-analytical
• 4. Secular/scientific
  spiritual/scientific
• 5. Objective Intersubjective
• 6. Critical Post-critical
• 7. Organization
  alliance, network

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Themes in Transition

• 8. Individualism community,
  tradition, tribe
• 9. Protestant/polemical
  Post-protestant
• 10. Consumerist
  ???
• 11. Print literacy layered fluency
• 12. National global/migratory

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Late Transition
Early Transition
Old Paradigm/ Model
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Late Transition
Early Transition
Old Paradigm/ Model
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New Paradigm/ Model
Late Transition
Early Transition
Old Paradigm/ Model
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New Paradigm/ Model
Late Transition
Early Transition
Old Paradigm/ Model
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Paradigm Shifts
It was as if the ground had been pulled out
from under one, with no firm foundation to be
seen anywhere, upon which one could have
built. Albert Einstein On his paradigm shift
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Paradigm Shifts
A new scientific truth does not triumph by
convincing its opponents and making them see the
light, but rather because its opponents
eventually die, and a new generation grows up
that is familiar with it. Max Planck Scientific
Autobiography
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So whats next? The answer is not one
response, but many creative and synergistic
responses.
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Liturgical
Social Action
Charismatic
Evangelical
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Is this the emerging church?
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Or is this the emerging church?
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Or are both forms of the church that is emerging?
How will they relate?
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DEEP ECCLES IOLOGY
Eastern Orthodox Roman Catholic
Anglo-Catholic Anglican
Lutheran Presbyterian Methodist
Baptist
Pentecostal
House, Cell, Storefront
Micro, quantum, liquid, ghost, ephemeral,
unconscious, etc .
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Conservative way
Medieval church
Modern Crisis
Liberal way
from Nancey Murphy, Beyond Liberalism and
Fundamentalism
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Increasing Polarization
Conservative way
Medieval church
Modern Crisis
Liberal way
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Increasing Polarization
Conservative way
Medieval church
Modern Crisis
Liberal way
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A Generous Orthodoxy?
A Missional Orthodoxy?
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Continue the conversation Brianmclaren.net Emerge
nt-uk.org Amahoro.info www.re-tro.se
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