Ryan Scott
29th June 2008, 07:04 PM (19:04)
I thought for sure this book would be up here, but I didn't see it. This is the contribution from Peter Rollins, a Philosopher and "emergent" leader in Northern Ireland. It's a very small book (just about 130 pages) split into two section.
The first seventy pages are an attempt at explaining a system of a/theology. Rollins describes this as the tension inherent in the mystery of God. The idea being no matter what we say about God we do not adequately describe or understand God.
He deals, also with the idea of relativism and the tension between God's immanence and transcendence (he says they're the same thing).
There is also a very helpful definition of "the emerging conversation" near the beginning of the first chapter.
I'd like to explain more, but there was so much contained here to present it well without just reprinting the whole thing. I will say that, as I was reading, I said to myself over and over "Hans will love this."
The second half of the book details ten services which have been done at Ikon, the community Rollins participates in near Belfast. They deal practically with some of the themes that he touches on in the first half of the book.
The guy is a philosopher, so he uses some heady language, but does so in a way that is not over people's heads. It might take a little longer to read each sentence, but few people will have trouble understanding what he has to say.
I thought it was a great book.
The first seventy pages are an attempt at explaining a system of a/theology. Rollins describes this as the tension inherent in the mystery of God. The idea being no matter what we say about God we do not adequately describe or understand God.
He deals, also with the idea of relativism and the tension between God's immanence and transcendence (he says they're the same thing).
There is also a very helpful definition of "the emerging conversation" near the beginning of the first chapter.
I'd like to explain more, but there was so much contained here to present it well without just reprinting the whole thing. I will say that, as I was reading, I said to myself over and over "Hans will love this."
The second half of the book details ten services which have been done at Ikon, the community Rollins participates in near Belfast. They deal practically with some of the themes that he touches on in the first half of the book.
The guy is a philosopher, so he uses some heady language, but does so in a way that is not over people's heads. It might take a little longer to read each sentence, but few people will have trouble understanding what he has to say.
I thought it was a great book.