Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches
Five Perspectives

They're so pitiful, except for Driscoll! Learn to read between the lines if you expect to discern what's going on with this crew. I am frankly so appalled that the evangelical church is still failing to recognize liberal, naturalistic theology when they see it, I don't know what to do. Paggit looks......more

Some writers went too theoretical and in times I got bored. The best part of the book were the responses from the other writers. It was great to see the common ground and parts they didn't agree on. It gives a great opportunity to rethink and re-evaluate your own theology. Maybe the best part was We......more

...is what emerging churches are about, at least according to this book (with the exception of Mark Driscoll's contributions). I say "contributions" because each of the five contributors not only writes a chapter of his/her own, but responds to each of the chapters by the other contributors. So by t......more

Plucked from my review at [[URL not allowed] I’ve always liked the “point/counterpoint”-style books, where I get to peek into the minds of various people, and see how people with different worldviews approach a problem. I like the atmosphere of mutual respect, admiration, and “agree-......more

A pretty good book so far. I feel bad for Mark Driscoll - he stands out as being the least capable of thinking. Further, he seems the least "emergent" of the group. He even refers to "emergent thinking" as if he's not in it at all. I, too, am a bit curious as to why he's even in this book. Seems lik......more