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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes A community that has given life to alternative worship in the United States, called Emergent Village (a.k.a. emerging churches, Emergent), comprises a network of Christian artists, pastors, theologians, church planters, and so forth, who are attempting to “do church” and participate in the mission of God in a postmodern, post-Christendom world. The alternative worship experience detailed in the paper is neither indicative nor prescriptive of the broader alternative worship scene in the United States. Most alternative worship experiences that I have observed do not make such overt use of postmodern philosophy. Augustine, Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 10.6. Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Edification and Awakening, trans. Alastair Hannay (New York: Penguin, 1989), 84. Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings, trans. Oliver Davies (New York: Penguin Classics, 1994), 10–11. Richard Kearney, “Epiphanies of the Everyday: Toward a Micro-Eschatology,” in After God: Richard Kearney and the Religious Turn in Continental Philosophy, ed. John Manoussakis (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), 3. Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity: An Essay On Exteriority, trans. Alphonso Lingis (Pittsburg: Duquesne University Press, 1969), 254–55. Additional informationNotes on contributorsJacob D. MyersJacob D. Myers is a PhD student in religion at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
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