international reflection on emerging church life

The latest issue of the International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church (Volume 6, Number 1 / March 2006) is focused entirely on the “Emerging Church.” Online access to the issue will run you close to $80, so be prepared. The contents are as follows:

• Editors’ preface by Christine Hall and Geoffrey Rowell
• The emerging church by John Drane
• Improvising church: An introduction to the emerging church conversation by Scott Bader-Saye
• An exploration into the missiology of the emerging church in the UK through the narrative of Sanctus1 by Ben Edson
• Emerging from the evangelical subculture in Northern Ireland: An analysis of the Zero28 and ikon community 1 by Gladys Ganiel
• The post-evangelical emerging church: Innovations in New Zealand and the UK by Mathew Guest and Steve Taylor
• Post-church groups and their place as emergent forms of church by Alan Jamieson
• Deconversion in the emerging church by Philip Harrold
• The church in liquid modernity: A sociological and theological exploration of a liquid church by Kees de Groot
• Unravelling the DNA of church: How can we know that what is emerging is ‘Church’? by George Lings
• Book Reviews of Emerging Churches by Eddie Gibbs & Ryan Bolger, Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church by D. A. Carson, The Out of Bounds Church by Steve Taylor, and The Complex Christ, by Kester Brewin

Peace, dwight