Reviews of Major Books on the Emerging Church

So, I thought it would be helpful to post some reviews of major books on the Emerging Church from various places and viewpoints. Let me know if you think they are helpful, or if you have your own review to submit.

I will select from among all of those writing on the emerging church, missional church, mosaic church and those theologian engaging postmodern thought in a significant way. I will focus on those books listed at: 100 Books on the Emerging Church

Brian McLaren, Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices (Thomas Nelson, 2008).

Surprisingly, it was difficult to find reviews of this book. Most of the reviews that were listed highly by Google were by people so fundamentalist that some of them accused the Moody Bible Institute of being deeply involved in theological error and that Mr. McLaren was clearly a new age prophet here to mislead the church in the end-times. I included one or two of those above, but mostly for curiosity’s sake. The Amazon reviews seemed to be the most substantive.

Michael Danner, “Michael’s Blog: Book Review: Finding Our Way Again by Brian McLaren,” http://michaeldanner.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/07/book-review-fin.html.

Berit and Andy Kjos, “Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices,” Kjos Ministries, 5, 2008, http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/spirituality/lighthousetrails/08/5-mclaren-finding.htm.

Methodist Mavericks, “Methodist Mavericks: May 2008,” http://methodistmavericks.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html.

Helen Mildenhal, “Conversation at the Edge,” Blog, Conversation at the Edge, http://conversationattheedge.com/2008/07/14/finding-our-way-again-by-brian-mclaren/.

Various, “Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices,” Commercial, Various , http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0849901146/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=&showViewpoints=1&colid=&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending.

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