{"id":48347,"date":"2009-03-13T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katefox.biz\/newhall\/?p=26"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:43:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:43:26","slug":"the-emerging-emergent-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/the-emerging-emergent-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Openers: The Emerging, Emergent Church &#8212; What&#8217;s Up Next for Christianity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2009\/03\/13\/the-emerging-emergent-church\/tickle-book-jack-great-emergence\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-356\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-356\" title=\"phyllis tickle-book-jacket-great-emergence\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/tickle-book-jack-great-emergence.webp\" alt=\"phyllis tickle-book-jacket-great-emergence\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why, <\/em>by Phyllis Tickle, Baker Books, 172 pages, $17.99<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAbout every five hundred years the Church feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale,\u201d Phyllis Tickle\u00a0 writes in her new book, <em>The Great Emergence.<\/em>\u00a0 In the two thousand years since its founding, Christianity has reinvented itself several times, casting off the old encumbrances. This time, Tickle says, the rummage sale is making room for a new, post-modern, \u201cnetworked Christianity.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A veteran editor, writer and observer of the American religion scene, Tickle believes that a radical reconfiguration is currently taking place in the North American Church. Known as the emergent or emerging church, it\u2019s a re-structuring of Christianity that compares in scope and consequence to the Great Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, the Great Schism of the eleventh century, and the monastic reforms of Gregory the Great way back in the sixth century.<\/p>\n<p>Open <em>The Great Emergence<\/em> and find out where a lot of Christians think their church is heading next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAbout every five hundred years the Church feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale,\u201d Phyllis Tickle  writes in her new book, &#8220;The Great Emergence.&#8221;  In the two thousand years since its founding, Christianity has reinvented itself several times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,50],"tags":[71,72,73,74],"class_list":["post-48347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-openers","category-on-writing-reading","tag-book-review","tag-emergent-church","tag-emerging-church","tag-phyllis-tickle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52901,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48347\/revisions\/52901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}