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  <title><![CDATA[The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why]]></title>
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  <default_description>Rooted in the observation that massive transitions in the church happen about every 500 years, Phyllis Tickle shows readers that we live in such a time right now. She compares the Great Emergence to other &quot;Greats&quot; in the history of Christianity, including the Great Transformation (when God walked among us), the time of Gregory the Great, the Great Schism, and the Great Reformation.   Combining history, a look at the causes of social upheaval, and current events, &lt;i&gt;The Great Emergence&lt;/i&gt; shows readers what the Great Emergence in church and culture is, how it came to be, and where it is going. Anyone who is interested in the future of the church in America, no matter what their personal affiliation, will find this book a fascinating exploration.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Phyllis Tickle, who is the editor of the Religion Department of Publisher's Weekly, has written a thin, but information packed, book dealing with the evolution of religion in America and projecting its future development.  Using the thesis that there is a great religious upheaval about every 500 yea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70984616">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Impressive book from Phyllis Tickle about the Emergent Church and how history brought us to the changes currently taking place. It is a short book of ~150 pages. The theme being that every 500 years or so the Christian church &quot;evolves&quot; itself with a giant rummage sale of sorts. Great Schis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58630245">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Phyllis Tickle is able to summarize two thousand years of history with broad brush strokes so that even history-challenged folks like me can track the sweeps of change.  In the context of social, economic, scientific, cultural change…, God’s people (the church) has proven itself a living organis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56690644">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm rating this book 3 stars because I thought it had a lot of very useful information, but I'm not sure my paradigm changed as a result of reading it, nor did I find the reading experience overwhelmingly satisfying. That being said, it was a nice book, very informative, probably groundbreaking for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76003046">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book.  Phyllis Tickle provides us a &quot;long view&quot; of american christian religion and a &quot;cliff notes&quot; version of church history leading up to where we are currently.  Trust me, I am the last person to want to ignore details and caveats, but I enjoyed her diagrams and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38608697">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Great Emergence by Phyllis Tickle. Tickle, the godmother of emergent Christianity, can connect dots between Karl Marx, quantum physics and sola scriptura in less than a paragraph. And it will make sense. She is an academician in the highest sense, widely versed, and able to offer more than a few...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42964821">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[when i started this book i hated it but by the time i finished it i was loving it. if possible i'd give it 3 1/2 stars.  in the first third i found her writing dry and vague.  the second section was like a church history and sociological overview but the last third is where it really took off where ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42727051">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Other folks have said it in their own reviews - there sure is a lot of history to chew on in this book.  I find that what is said regarding that historical perspective could probably have been said more simply and easily. Simplicity and succinctness might have made this book a little more accessible...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40941828">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was fascinating.  Tickle attempts to place her finger on what is happening in the church NOW and how that fits in with what has happened in church and cultural history of the last 2000 years.  No easy task.  It will be interesting to go back in future and see how accurate she was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52260475">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I agree with a lot of what she is saying but...<br/><br/>I don't know if I agree with her diagram for explaining the lay out of different forms of Christianity today.  Personally I'm tired of diagrams telling me where I fit into the church even if they are diagrams created by emergent auth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33646106">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whether you like Emerging/Emergent church stuff this book makes a very clear case exactly where it has come from historically, theologically, and sociologically.  It makes a very clear and fairly fact based argument that we shouldn't be surprised by the rise of emerging/Emergent Christianity and sho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54309713">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tickle moves fast in this book and for good reason. She covers a whole lot of ground as she helps us see how Christianity has changed, how it is changing now and where things might be headed. I read this with a group and while I enjoyed it, some thought it was a snoozer. If you're interested in hist...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46981481">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first part of the book about Christianity having a reformation every 500 years or so is a bit contrived. I don't think history really shows that pattern. But her thoughts on what is happening right now, that we are going through a kind of new Reformation, as she calls it 'The Great Emergence', I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62474168">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some great analyses of large scale trends in Christianity. While I am generally skeptical of metahistorical trends, Tickle highlights some interesting parallel movements in Western Christianity in the last two millennia, though some of it feels like a big stretch to me. <br/><br/>Definitely recomm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44917301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book for anyone who is interested in grasping where the church is headed with a historical view in mind. Phyllis makes a strong case that the church goes through a significant transition every 500 years and has never been worse off for it. It helped me to feel more comfortable with w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42341392">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very interesting general survey about where the church has been and where it is going. By keeping it general, Phyllis Tickle is able to map out patterns that has guided church history that are harder to see when you get down inside all the events. This is more seeing the forest than the t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56492600">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. What can I say. Good. Really. I enjoyed it and learned from it. Good ... but no where near as good as you might think from the buzz. I'm thinking The Great Convergence: How Religion is Changing and Why might have been a better book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Phylllis Tickle proposes that the western church is in midst of its fourth reformation.  After reasing her well-reasoned analysis, I would have to agree.  A short, but compelling look at where we are in terms of redefining Christianity]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Too pomo for me. Gave up, lost interest, frustrated with the meandering. Plus what she considers to be &quot;central questions&quot; I...don't. And find rather boring by comparison to some other questions.]]></body>
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