Emerging church movement

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The emerging church movement is a recent Christian (mostly Protestant) movement that seeks to cater to the attitudes and experiences of what it sees as people who are postmodern, Generation X and "post-Christian" through a deconstructive and conversational approach to Christianity. Participants in the movement often say the movement is a reaction to the evangelical right-wing, which they find overbearing. The movement started in the United States of America around 2000, and has spread elsewhere in the world including the United Kingdom.[1]

The emerging church movement tends to reject church hierarchy, has a strong focus on praxis--the practical consequences of faith, and tends to prefer narrative theology over propositional, systematic theology \- what one does, not what one believes[2].

Conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists often criticize the emerging church, alleging that it is unorthodox or heretical in its embrace of postmodernism, which they claim undermines Biblical truth.

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1. ↑ Katharine Sarah Moody, "'I Hate Your Church; What I Want is My Kingdom': Emerging Spiritualities in the UK Emerging Church Milieu", The Expository Times, 121: 10, pp. 495-503.
2. ↑ Jasen Tracey, Emerging Impulses: Narrative Theology, Zeal for Truth blog