It has been fun, interesting, discouraging,encouraging and enlightening to see the various reactions to the posts on the Emerging Church. As you would expect, there have been both positive and negative reactions. I thought that I would take the time to post links to some of these here so that you could get a balanced view of how people are responding, positive and negative.

One of the most common problems with the reactions is that most of these reactions either only post the chart or they only link to one part of what became a six-part series. Because of this, the main thrust of my intentions were sometimes misrepresented, being taken out of context. This is why I am going to follow this with a post that combines all parts into one. Hopefully future links will go to this complete post instead.

Positive:

Christians in Context

The Separation

In Proximity

Traveling Ancient Roads

SoCal Theologica

Joy in the Journey

Micah Fries

Personal Trainer

Ron’s Bloviating

An Accidental Blog

Normal Christian Life

Negative:

Tall Skinny Kiwi

Finitum non carpax infiniti (who has a chart of his own!–nice.)

Mending Shift

Emergent Village

Brad Boydston

Neutral:

Between Two Worlds

Dan Kimball

Submersive Influence

Jesus Under Plastic

Blue Like Elvis

Jesus Creed (Whole lot of comments. I dialogue a bit there)

Faith Maps

Phoenix Preacher (lots of comments)

Stuff out Loud

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Most controversial theological issues of 2007:

1. Francis Beckwith’s conversion to Catholicism

2. J.P. Moreland’s paper to the Evangelical Theological Society entitled: How Evangelicals Became Over-Committed to the Bible and What can be Done about It.

Most important books of 2007:

1. UnChristian by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons

2. Kingdom Triangle by JP Moreland

3. Christianity’s Dangerous Idea by Alister McGrath

4. Putting Jesus in His Place by Ed Komoszewski and Robert Bowman

5. They Like Jesus but Not the Church by Dan Kimball

Most Controversial Book

Inspiration and Incarnation by Peter Enns

Top Ten Christian Blogs

1. Between Two Worlds: Theological news that keeps us all informed. Thanks Justin. Continue Reading »

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UPDATE: Michael Patton. Character count was at 500 Richard. I changed it to 2500. This should give people more space for comments, just not for a book! 

Parchment and Pen is intended to be a place where scholars can submit their ideas and thoughts and where others can interact in a thoughtful and concise way. Unfortunately, some have decided to use PaP as their soapbox to bully, show-off, or just be unkind. Continue Reading »

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I think that Michael Spencer (imonk) has put together an excellent podcast series called Coffee Cup Apologetics. From what I have listened to on the podcast and read on the blog, Michael seems to be very balanced and thoughtful. I thought that I would point you in this direction if you have not heard him before. His weekly show called Internet Monk Radio is a blogcast (blog in a podcast) and is excellent. I listen to it just about every week. The Coffee Cup Apologetics is focused on apologetic issues of the day.

Today’s podcast is called Five Limitations of Apologetics. It is a good one to get your feet wet with the imonk. The imonk is well worth your time.

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