The Great Emergence

Went to a great conference last weekend put on by off-the-map and Jim Henderson.  Phyllis Tickle was there among others.  Her stuff on “The Great Emergence” is awesome.  Here is a link to a lecture she did at a local church the day after the conference.  Her book The Great Emergence is a more thorough look at historic hinge that we are currently in.  Her approach is looking at the different segments of Christian History.  According to her every 500 years, there is a radical change in Christian history that revolves around authority.  We have moved from apostolic/patriarch Fathers authority to Monastic authority to Papal authority to the Great Reformation which was scripture only and now we are moving again into a place where authority is not certain.  Tickle explains it better in her lecture and particularly in her book.  Her lecture is about 45 minutes and totally worth it.

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