Dr Peter Rollins, a Research Associate with Trinity College Dublin at Belfast (the Irish School of Ecumenics) returned to Belfast today for a seminar on ‘The Uprising of Christ: The Resurrection as Insurrection.’ Rollins is currently based on the … Read more...
Category: Emerging Church
Philip Pullman Book Review: The Good Man Jesus & the Scoundrel Christ
There’s not much in Philip Pullman’s latest book, The Good Man Jesus & the Scoundrel Christ, which would be new to anyone familiar with the Gospels.
Sure, his story has two characters, Jesus and Christ, in the place of a … Read more...
Peter Rollins Seminar on ‘The Uprising of Christ: Resurrection as Insurrection,’ May 4, 2010
Peter Rollins will be back in Belfast following the largely US-orientated Insurrection Tour with a seminar, ‘The Uprising of Christ: Resurrection as Insurrection,’ at Trinity College Dublin at Belfast (The Irish School of Ecumenics, 683 Antrim Road) on Tuesday 4 … Read more...
John Carroll Book Review: The Existential Jesus
I have a both a scholarly and a personal interest in emergence Christianity. It’s no secret that among those involved with emergence Christianity, criticism of church institutions is quite fashionable these days.
There are some within emergence Christianity who think … Read more...
Brian McLaren: A New Kind of Christianity?
Two weeks ago at the Re-Emergence conference in Belfast, Phyllis Tickle said that in the past 18 months, she had detected ‘emergence’ Christians beginning to distance themselves ever farther from the evangelical roots from which so many of them had … Read more...
Re-Emergence in Belfast: De-Institutionalising Christianity
Last week as the conference, ‘Re-emergence: Christianity and the Event of God,’ was coming to a close, we were shaken out of our conversations as the fire alarms in the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin at Belfast, reverberated … Read more...
Notes from the Insurrection … Peter Rollins Pub Tour
It wasn’t tongues of fire descending on the disciples in an upper room. Rather, images of burning churches flickered across the back wall of a basement room in McHugh’s Bar in Belfast. And on Tuesday of this past week, … Read more...
Re-Emergence Conference Belfast: Christianity is ours for the making?
It’s been a hectic three days in Belfast with the Re-Emergence conference. I’m exhausted but left with a singular thought: the future of Christianity is ours for the making.
When many people think about Christianity, I suspect they reduce … Read more...
The Re-Emergence, and the Insurrection, Start Tonight …
The conference, ‘Re-Emergence: Christianity and the Event of God,’ begins tonight, 15 March 2010, at 8 p.m. in McHugh’s Bar in Belfast. Tonight’s event is also the launch of the ‘Insurrection’ tour.
The conference runs until Thursday morning at … Read more...
Samir Selmanovic Book Review: It’s Really All About God – Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian & The Re-Emergence Conference, Belfast
Samir Selmanovic is conducting a workshop at the upcoming ‘Re-Emergence: Christianity and the Event of God’ conference, set for March 16-18, 2010 in Belfast. If his recent book, It’s Really all about God: Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian… Read more...
Matthew Engelke Book Review: A Problem of Presence – Beyond Scripture in an African Church. What Do the Masowe Apostles and Post-Modern Christians have in Common?
What can Christians in the West learn from the Masowe Apostles? Much can be gleaned from a remarkably insightful book, Dr Matthew Engelke’s A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church (University of California Press, 2007).
Not long … Read more...