Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
This book, published in 2008, examines the past and future of society and Christianity, framing the current moment as a "cathartic" period. Tippett described it as "brilliant" and significant for its understanding of the Christian church.
And in the cathartic autumn of 2008 she published a sweeping book about the past and future of society and Christianity which was called the Great Emergence.
— Episode: [Unedited] Vincent Harding and Phyllis T...
Episode: [Unedited] Vincent Harding and Phyllis Tickle with...
This book, published in 2008, examines the past and future of society and Christianity, framing the current moment as a "cathartic" period. Tippett described it as "brilliant" and significant for its understanding of the Christian church.
And in the cathartic autumn of 2008 she published a sweeping book about the past and future of society and Christianity which was called the Great Emergence.
Well, to first of all I have to be a little honest. Thank you for the accolades but I must confess that there's not much original thinking on my part it was a matter of putting together. The patterns, the insights have all got academic roots way back.
So much of what the great emergence as a book really was. Was an assembling if you will of the ideas of other people.
But the great emergence that we're going through is analogous more to 2000 years ago when everything shifted.
Episode: [Unedited] Vincent Harding and Phyllis Tickle with...
Published in the autumn of 2008, it was described as a sweeping book about the past and future of society and Christianity.
And in the cathartic autumn of 2008 she published a sweeping book about the past and future of society and Christianity which was called the Great Emergence.
Well, to first of all I have to be a little honest. Thank you for the accolades but I must confess that there's not much original thinking on my part it was a matter of putting together. The patterns, the insights have all got academic roots way back.
So much of what the great emergence as a book really was. Was an assembling if you will of the ideas of other people.
But the great emergence that we're going through is analogous more to 2000 years ago when everything shifted.
And when the books began to go in the early 90s and the mid-90s and religion suddenly became and you remember this, the best sellers.