An Alternative Reformation for the Korean Church: The Emerging Church Movement

This chapter offers a contribution to the ongoing research into networked individualism in late modern society from the perspective of religion online. Using a sample of weblogs created by Australians involved in the “emerging church movement,” this chapter will explore how the Internet has enabled individuals to seek relationships with others and discern a religious identity beyond the confines of local faith communities and denominational institutions. Here we will see how those who use blogs to form religious networks must negotiate constructions of communal identities, not just offline, but within the blogosphere. These negotiations represent a postmodern quest for authentic religious expression and practice, which is found in the flow of information among a myriad of traditional and new sources.

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Research on Preaching in Emerging Church Movement: Arising from Dan Kimball and Mark Driscoll

Korea Presbyterian Journal of Theology ◽

10.15757/kpjt.2012.44.4.010 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 243-267

Author(s):

유재원

Keyword(s):

Emerging Church ◽

Emerging Church Movement

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‘I might be wrong’

Ecclesial Practices ◽

10.1163/22144471-00601008 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 102-119

Author(s):

Rein Brouwer

Keyword(s):

Young Adult ◽

Emerging Church ◽

Urban Church ◽

Emerging Church Movement ◽

The 1960S ◽

Theological Thought ◽

The Church ◽

Theological Thinking

For about ten years (1998-2008), Kester Brewin was one of the principal instigators of the Vaux community, a ‘vehicle for exploring radical theological thought and practice’. From these experiences and events, he wrote The Complex Christ: Signs of Emergence in the Urban Church (2004). Since then he moved on as a blogger, columnist, tedx-er, and writer. In 2016 he published Getting High: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Dream of Flight with Vaux Publishing. Getting High is a fascinating reflection on an era dominated by the flight of technology (from the 1960s on), substituting for the eternal longing for the ultimate. But it is also a moving introspection into Brewin’s own life. Being the son of a preacher man, he was getting high on evangelical ecstasy as a young adult, before he became one of the influential figures in the emerging church movement. He ended up, however, ‘outside of what would be taken as orthodox belief.’ This paper discusses Kester Brewin’s ‘piratic’ thoughts on the church, based on his books, blogs, and columns. How did his ‘theological’ thinking evolve, and what does it mean for ecclesiology?

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