AEF Conference: Brian McLaren
December 07, 2006
Brian McLaren had the honor of being the first featured speaker at the inaugural AEF Conference. His topic: Does the Emergent Church have an Ancient Evangelical Future? -- The Call and the Witnessing MIssion of the Emerging Church
Here's a basic outline of what Brian covered this evening (and a video clip of his closing remarks):
Does the Emerging Church Have an Ancient Future?
1. The problem of defining the emerging church -- and speakin for it.
2. The modernity Paradigm
- Modernity
- Postmodernity
- Premodernity
3. Three dangers
- captivity & domestication
- reactivity & rebellion
- exclusion and marginalization
4. An opportunity
- Renewal (ecclesiolae en ecclesia)
- Emergence and convergence
- Disciple-making among emerging cultures
- Young leaders
5. Specific engagements
- The North American Context
- Gospel as story, Gospel of the Kingdom
- Christianity after Christendom
- Deep Ecclesiology and Generous Orthodoxy
- A Bigger Library (i.e. looking to the early Church Fathers)
- A Living Tradition -- Protestants, Evangelicals, and Pentecostals
- The Question of a Global (not exclusively Greco-Roman) Theology
- Liturgical Renewal and Innovation
- The New (Social) Trinitarianism
- Holistic and Prophetic gospel
- Conversation
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Here's a brief video clip of Brian's closing remarks:
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