Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church

D. A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He has been at Trinity since 1978. Carson came to Trinity from the faculty of Northwest Baptist Theological Seminary in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he also served for two years as academic dean. He has served as assistant pastor and pastor and has done itinerant ministry in Canada and the United Kingdom. Carson received the Bachelor of Science in chemistry from McGill University, the Master of Divinity from Central Baptist Seminary in Toronto, and the Doctor of Philosophy in New Testament from the University of Cambridge. Carson is an active guest lecturer in academic and church settings around the world. He has written or edited about sixty books. He is a founding member and currently president of The Gospel Coalition.

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• CONTENTSPreface…91. The Emerging Church Profile…112. Emerging Church Strengths in Reading the Times…453. Emerging Church Analysis of Contemporary Culture…574. Personal Reflections on Postmodernism’s Contributionand Challenges…875. Emerging Church Critique of Postmodernism…1256. Emerging Church Weakness Illustrated in TwoSignificant Books…1577. Some Biblical Passages to Help Us in Our Evaluation…1888. A Biblical Meditation on Truth and Experience…218Scripture Index…237Index of Names…241Subject Index…245