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Postmodernism
Postmodern Thought, this a philosophical website. Not for the faint of heart.
Defining Postmodernism, a problem is that postmodernism is a pluralistic view, thereby avoiding "definition." But good luck.
The Postmodern Generator, this is just plain weird. Every time you hit your browser's refresh button, you get a postmodern linguistically generated essay. Read to the bottom of the essay and you will see a comment like this, "The essay you have just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator." Have fun, quote it and people will think you are either very smart, or that you have too much time on your hands.
Christian Scholars Review, Volume XXVI, Number 2 (Winter 1996) Special Issue: Christianity and Postmodernity.
Ecotones
In the book, Leonard Sweet, et al., A is for Abduction: The Language of the Emerging Church (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003), this time of collapsing modernism and arising post-modernism is discussed as an "ecotone." Check out this link for seeing this metaphor, ecotone. What does it mean for one thing to end and another to begin? What is the turning point?
Base Ecclesial Communities
In the days of Liberation Theology, independent communities of faith developed. These communities were largely in the revolution torn regions of Latin America. As priests and those of the religious orders were killed or persecuted, the Roman Catholic Christians took on the task of being church. The result was a revolutionary form of Christianity that cold not be controlled by the political powers. Below are some articles about this trend:
The Receiving End of Mission, in Life in Community, from Sojourners June 1998. Discusses a little about the larger issue of "base ecclesial communities."
A Concise History of Liberation Theology
From Good News in Wales, an online book from the Church in Wales (Anglican) discusses in brief the nature of base ecclesial communities as a means of renewal.
Emergent Culture/Church
emergingchurch.info - "A touching place for the emerging church" Especially take note of the article by Steve Collins called, "Network Church"
ekklesiaproject.org
allelon.org
ekklesia - a new way of thinking
jordancooper.com
Emergent Village
postmodern_theology: "breeding ground" for the mind of the emerging church
Open Source Theology
The Ooze
Churches: Evangelization and Social Transformation
One Sided Christianity, by Ron Sider, 1992 (Harper Collins) reveals a chart, a map of sorts on which most denominational traditions in the Body of Christ may be located. See if you can find yours.
...the task of Christianity today
is ... to resist the institutional stabilizing of things, and by
'raising
the question of meaning' to make things uncertain and keep them moving
and elastic in the process of history... Hope alone... keeps life
flowing
and free."
Jurgen
Moltman, Theology of Hope,
pg 324
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