abortion, 102–3
Absolute, 89
addiction, 92
Adler, Alfred, 70
affinity grouping, 154
African-American Christianity, 84
Alcoholics Anonymous, 91–92
Aldrin, Buzz, 82
angels, 65, 78
anti-intellectualism, 159
Apostolic Church, 27
aristocracy, 51
Aristotle, 30
Armstrong, Karen, 30–31
Armstrong, Neil, 82
artificial intelligence, 70, 71, 106
Asberry, Richard and Ruth, 83
Asian spirituality, 96
Assemblies of God, 127
Association of Vineyard Churches, 155, 156–58, 164n5
atheism, 90
atonement, 162
Augustinian theology, 27
authenticity, 157
authority, 72–73, 145–50, 158
of clergy, 92–93
as experiential, 85
in Great Emergence, 85, 150–53
and re-formation, 45
of Scripture, 82, 151
automobile, 85–87, 90, 108, 114
“Axial Age,” 30
Azusa Street Revival, 83–84, 91
Babylonian Captivity, 29
ballast, 138–39
Bass, Diana Butler, 28, 58, 141
beauty, 149–50
becoming, 88
beliefnet.com, 106
beliefs, 130
“believe-behave-belong,” 159
“belong-behave-believe,” 159
Benedict, St., 22
Benedict XIII, 44
Bhagavad-Gita, 30
biblical absolutism, 101
biblical criticism, 65
biblical literacy, 87, 102, 115–16
Big Bang, 82
Bill, J. Brent, 154
biology, 65
birth control pill, 113
birth rates, 115
Black Death, 60n2
Blavatsky, Helene, 117n3
body and mind, 71–72
body and soul, 162
Borg, Marcus, 81
Bosnia, 49
bounded-set groups, 158
Brown, Raymond E., 81
Brown, Robert, 78
Bucer, Martin, 57
Buda, 49
Buddha, 30
Buddhism, 96–97, 117n3
Bullinger, Heinrich, 57
Byzantine Empire, 48
cable of meaning, 34–38
Calvary Chapel, 156, 157
Calvary House, 92
Calvin, John, 20, 57
Campbell, Joseph, 67–70
capitalism, 51–52, 152
cash, 51–52
cell phones, 105
center-dwellers, 163n1
center-set-movement, 158–59
change, 114, 141
chaos math, 70
Charismatic Christians, 117n2, 126, 129
Christian exclusivity, 67, 69
church, as system of relations, 152
Civil Rights movement, 93
Civil War, 98–99
Clement VII, 44
clergy, authority of, 92–93
cognitive science, 71–72
Colet, John, 57
Columbus, 55
common imagination, 35
communism, 89–90
community, 151
community churches, 144n3
competition, over cooperation, 59
computer science, 70, 106–7
Conference of Conservative Protestants (1895), 65–66
Confucius, 30
consciousness, 73, 98
consensual illusion, 35, 45
Conservatives, 127, 154
Constantine, 161
Constantinople, 47–48
Contarini, Gasparo, 57
conversation, 104, 153
Copernicus, 54–55
Cordoba, 49
corporeality, 36–37, 39n1, 102
Council of Chalcedon, 23–24
Council of Trent, 58, 61n3
Counter-Emergence, 141
Counter-Reformation, 57–59, 61n3
creeds, 130
Crossan, John Dominic, 81
crowd sourcing, 152
Crusades, 59
culture, and religion, 33
cyberspace, 106–7
Dark Ages, 25–26, 151
Darwin, Charles, 54, 64–65, 73, 78
Darwinism, 55
de-Hellenization, 161, 162
democracy, 152, 153, 155
denominationalism, 46, 56, 101, 127–28
Descartes, René, 71–72, 74n1
dialectical materialism, 89
Diet of Speyer (1529), 124
divorce, 99–100, 112–13
doctrine, 102, 160, 161
drugs, 97–98, 125
Dyer, Mark, 16
earth, centrality of, 55–56
Eastern Orthodoxy, 20–21, 24, 28
economics, 15
egalitarianism, 84, 152
Eighty Years’ War, 60
Einstein, Albert, 64, 77–82
electromagnetism, 64–65
electronic space, 106
Elnes, Eric, 142, 144n5
emergent, vs. emerging, 163n1
emergent Christianity, 28, 104, 116, 120, 121, 158. See also Great Emergence
empiricism, 54
Engels, Friedrich, 88
Enlightenment, 46, 90, 154
Episcopalians, 100, 130, 137
Erikson, Erik, 70
ethos, 34
evangelicalism, 144n3
and Great Emergence, 153–54
evening services, 86
evolution, 54, 64, 65
experience, 93, 96
faith, and works, 56, 129
family, 87, 108–9, 112–15
Faraday, Michael, 64–65, 68, 73, 78
feminism, 109, 111
fiefdoms, 50, 151
Fifth Lateran Council, 57
flexibility, 154
folk wisdom, 90
form criticism, 81
Foster, Richard, 154
free time, 95
French Revolution, 88
Freud, Sigmund, 66–67, 70
Fuller Theological Seminary, 157
fundamentalism, 66, 127, 136
Galileo, 54
geriatric treatment, 105
globalization, 28, 52, 106
gnosticism, 161
God, as source of perfection, 150
Great Depression, 90, 95
Great Emergence, 13–16, 41–42
and authority, 85, 145–46, 148, 150–53
as conversation, 104, 153
and evangelicalism, 153–54
on humanness, 161–62
as movement within Christianity, 120
as postmodern, 159–60
rewriting Christian theology, 162
Great Plague of Moscow, 60n2
Great Reformation, 19–20, 28, 42, 43–57, 120, 124, 151
Great Schism, 19–21, 27–28, 59
Great Society, 90
Greek Orthodoxy, 20–21, 24, 28
Greek philosophy, 161
Gregory the Great, 21–22, 25–26, 151
Gregory XII, 44
guilt, 42
gunpowder, 50
Gutenberg, Johannes, 52–54
Hegel, G. W. F., 88–89
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, 79, 81, 82, 116n1
Herzegovina, 49
hierarchy, 107, 108
Higher Power, 92–93
historical Jesus, 80–81
historicity, 149
HIV-AIDS, 60n2
Holy Spirit, 85, 146, 157
Homer, 30
homosexuality, 39n1, 101, 130, 137
Hooker, Richard, 20, 57
Hope Chapel, 156
Horney, Karen, 70
Hospitallers, 49
house church movement, 134
Hubble, Edwin, 82
humanness, 161–62
Hungary, 49
hyphenateds, 142–43
idealism, 54
Ignatius Loyola, 58
immigration, 93–95
incarnation, 23
incarnational churches, 135
independent churches, 143n3
individualism, 51, 152
indulgences, 58
inerrancy, 82
information, 15, 52, 106
inherited church, 136, 140, 141
Inquisition, 59
interdenominational churches, 144n3
Internet, 53, 70, 106, 135, 152
iPod, 105
Islam, 30, 47, 48, 49
James, William, 92
Jaspers, Karl, 30
Jesuits, 58
Jesus Christ, life, death, and resurrection, 26
Jesus scholarship, 81
Joachim of Fiore, 164n8
John Cassian, 27
John of the Cross, 58
John XXIII, 44
Jones, Tony, 163n1
Judaism, 29, 75n2, 120, 161
Jung, Carl, 67, 70
Keats, John, 150
Kepler, Johannes, 54
Kevorkian, Jack, 103, 105
Kimball, Dan, 163n1
King, Karen, 81
Knox, John, 20
Korean War, 94, 125
Lakewood Church (Houston), 144n3
Leary, Timothy, 98
Leo IX, 20
liberal theology, 65
light, 65
Lindley, David, 116n1
literacy, 28, 46, 151
literalism, 82
literary deconstruction, 79, 81
Liturgicals, 125–26, 128–29
logic, 160
Luther, Martin, 20, 43, 56, 124, 164n7
MacCulloch, Diarmaid, 60n1
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 54
machines, dependency on, 15
Marcian, 23
marriage, 112–15
Marx, Karl, 87–90
Mary, “Mother of God,” 23–24
mathematics, 54
Maxwell, James Clerk, 68
McLaren, Brian, 163n1, 164n2, 164n7
McManus, Erwin, 163n1
meaning, 79
media age, 135
medical advances, 105
megachurch phenomenon, 144n3
Melanchthon, Philipp, 57
mercy, 103
meta-narrative, 160
Methodists, 127, 128
middle class, 51–52
Miller, Donald E., 155, 162, 164n3
modernism, 149
modernity, 136
monasticism, 22, 25–26, 27, 151
Monteverdi, 61n3
Moors, 49
morality, 36–37, 101–2
Mormons, 127
motion, 78
movement, 78
Moyers, Bill, 69
music, 53
Mussulmen, 48
mysticism, 159, 162, 164n8
Nag Hammadi, 81
nanotechnology, 70, 106
narrative, 160, 162
nation-states, 50, 51–52, 106
network theory, 70, 152–53, 154, 158
Neusner, Jacob, 81
New Deal, 90
new monasticism, 134
new paradigm churches, 155–56
Newton, Isaac, 54, 77
New World, 55–56
nondenominational churches, 134
North American Christianity, 121
nuclear family, 51–52, 108–9, 112
Oriental Christianity, 24, 27
orthodoxy, 131, 145, 147
orthonomy, 149–50, 163n1
orthopraxy, 130, 145, 147
Osiander, Andreas, 55
Ottomans, 47, 49
Oxford Group, 92
Pagels, Elaine, 81
Pagitt, Doug, 163n1, 164n6
Palmer, Parker, 154
pandemics, 60–61n2
Papacy, 104, 151
paper pope, 46
paradox, 160, 162
Parham, Charles, 83
particularity, Christian, 67, 69
Paul III, 58
Peace of Westphalia, 60
peasantry, 51
Pentecostalism, 82–85, 91, 126, 129, 158
peri-Reformation, 38, 47, 50, 52
physics, 64, 65
Planck, Max, 77
Plato, 30
Platonism, 54
political theory, 54, 88
post-Christendom, 136
post-Constantinianism, 161, 164n7
post-everything culture, 136
post-human theory, 70
postmodernity, 136, 141, 154
Power of Myth, The (PBS series), 69–70
pragmatism, 54
Presbyterians, 130, 137–38
priesthood of all believers, 45, 46, 53, 56, 107, 151, 155
Progressive Christians, 141–42
Protestantism, 17, 20, 28–29, 50–52, 56, 58, 87, 120, 159
and authority, 101, 151
divisiveness of, 46
lacking a center, 134
post-Emergence adaptations, 162–63
shift away from, 143n3
psychology, 96
Publishers Weekly, 9–11
Purgatory, 58
purists, 138
quadrilateral illustration, 125–43, 145
Quakers, 127, 154–55, 157
quantum physics, 16, 77–78
Qumran, 81
radio, 68
Rank, Otto, 70
rationalism, 46
Rauschenbusch, Walter, 125, 142n1
reactionists, 138–39, 140, 144n4
realism, 54
reason, 90
re-formation, and authority, 45
Reformation. See Great Reformation
Reimarus, Hermann Samuel, 80, 81
relational, 153, 160
relativity, 78, 79, 82
religion, as social construct, 33
religion publishing, 9–11
religious enthusiasms, 21
Renaissance, 47–48
Renewalists, 117n2, 126, 146, 158
re-traditioning, 28, 58, 141, 142
revolution, 89
Rhodes, fall of, 49
Roe v. Wade, 102
Roman Catholicism, 17, 20, 27–29, 127–28, 159
and counter-Reformation, 57–60
in Great Emergence, 104
Roman Empire, death of, 22–23
rose symbol, 138
Rosie the Riveter, 108–11
rules, 158
rural life, 95, 132
Sabbath, 86–87
sacraments, 56
Schiavo, Terri, 103, 105
Schweitzer, Albert, 80–81
science, 54, 63–64
Scripture, authority of, 82, 151
Second Temple Judaism, 29
self, 70–72, 160, 162
seminaries, rise of, 58
serfdom, 50
Seymour, William, 82–83
Sheen, Fulton J., 68, 106
slavery, 98–99
small groups, 93
Smith, Bob, 91–92
Smith, Chuck, Jr., 156
Smith, Chuck, Sr., 156
Social Justice Christians, 126, 128–29, 137, 154
sociology, 11, 135, 155–56
Socrates, 30
sola scriptura, 45–46, 53, 56, 69, 80, 81, 137, 144n3, 146, 150
erosion of, 98–101
as outmoded and insufficient, 151
Solomon’s Temple, 29
Sony Walkman, 105
soul, 78, 162
Southern Baptists, 127, 130
Spain, 48–49
spirituality, 36–37
Stalin, Joseph, 90
statism, 90
story, of community, 34, 52
Sunday, 86
technology, 15, 28, 64, 68, 86, 103–7
telegraph, 68
televangelists, 106
television, 68
Teresa of Ávila, 58
theonomy, 150, 163n1
Theosophy, 117n3
Third Wave, 157
Thirty Years’ War, 59
Tillich, Paul, 125
tongues, 83, 158
tradition, 150
traditionalists, 140–41, 142
Treaty of Münster, 60
truth, 79
Twelve Steps, 92
two-income families, 114
unconscious, 66–67
Upanishads, 30
urbanization, 90, 95, 132
Urban VI, 44
Vatican I, 104–5
Vatican II, 104–5
Vespucci, Amerigo, 55
Vienna, 49
Vietnam War, 93, 94, 125
Vineyard movement. See Association of Vineyard Churches
Virgin birth, 149
Wagner, C. Peter, 157
warfare, 50, 59
watercooler theology, 132–34
Western Christianity, 24, 75n2
Willow Creek Church (South Barrington, Ill.), 144n3
Wilson, Bill, 91–92
Wimber, John, 155, 157–58
women
enfranchisement of, 99
equality of, 113
ordination of, 100
roles of, 87, 108–12
world, as flat, 15, 35–36, 55, 106
world exploration and trade, 28
world religions, 73
World War I, 95
World War II, 94, 108–11, 125
World Wide Web, 53, 70, 152
worship, 84, 155
Wright, N. T., 81
Wycliffe, John, 52
Zell, Matthias and Katharina, 57
Zwingli, Ulrich, 20, 57