AEF Conference: Brian McLaren

Brian McLaren had the honor of being the first featured speaker at the inaugural AEF Conference.  His topic: Does the Emergent Church have an Ancient Evangelical Future? -- The Call and the Witnessing MIssion of the Emerging Church

Here's a basic outline of what Brian covered this evening (and a video clip of his closing remarks):

Does the Emerging Church Have an Ancient Future?

1.  The problem of defining the emerging church -- and speakin for it.
2.  The modernity Paradigm

• Modernity
• Postmodernity
• Premodernity

3.  Three dangers

• captivity & domestication
• reactivity & rebellion
• exclusion and marginalization

4.  An opportunity

• Renewal (ecclesiolae en ecclesia)
• Emergence and convergence
• Disciple-making among emerging cultures
• Young leaders

5.  Specific engagements

• The North American Context
• Gospel as story, Gospel of the Kingdom
• Christianity after Christendom
• Deep Ecclesiology and Generous Orthodoxy
• A Bigger Library (i.e. looking to the early Church Fathers)
• A Living Tradition -- Protestants, Evangelicals, and Pentecostals
• The Question of a Global (not exclusively Greco-Roman) Theology
• Liturgical Renewal and Innovation
• The New (Social) Trinitarianism
• Holistic and Prophetic gospel
• Conversation

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Here's a brief video clip of Brian's closing remarks: 

McLaren_closing_thoughts.wmv