TSK has a copy of Pete Rollins book, How (Not) To Speak of God -- "the most challenging emerging church book I have read for a long time...[It] is a thoughtful and original book, delivering some heavy-duty thinking from Marion and Derrida in a manner that is accessible and profound, and offering a fresh perspective on the Scriptures that moves the emerging conversation out of binary oppositions and into the love of God."

"In this way the emerging conversation is demonstrating an ability to stand up and engage in a powerless, space-creating dis-course that opens up thinking and offers hints rather than orders. In short, the emerging community must endevour to be a question rather than an answer and an aroma rather than food. It must seek to offer an approach that enables the people of God to become the parable, aroma, and salt of God in the world, helping to form a space where God can give of God. For too long the church has been seen as an oasis in the desert - offering water to those who are thirsty. In contrast, the emerging community appears more as a desert in the oasis of life, offering silence, space and desolation amidst the sickly nourishment of Western capitalism. It is in this desert, as we wander together as nomads, that God is to be found. For it is here that we are nourished by our hunger."
Pete Rollins, How (Not) to Speak of God, pg 42-43.

For what it's worth, if I squint I can read Brian McLaren's blurb on the cover:

I am a raving fan of [this] book...one of the most important contributions to date to the emergent church conversation.

It's out in the US in July.

Related on this site: Reflections by heretics (ikon and Pete Rollins)

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Adam at pomomusings has a bit of a summary/review of this book:

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I think it is one of the best books about the church emerging to come out recently. As it says on the back, Pete's book explores the philosophical and theological underpinnings of the emerging church movement. I think if anyone asks me what "I" think (I use the quotes because what "I" think Emergent is about may be vastly different than what "you" think it's about) Emergent is about. One of the things I like best about this is that it speaks directly from Pete's experience - coming from someone who has been involved in things from IKON to YWAM, and from backgrounds as diverse as the Pentecostal tradition and a strong penchant for the writings and theology of the Christian mystics. After I had spent an entire semester studying the theology of Pseudo-Dionysiu s, it was exciting to see someone incorporating some of his theology in ways that I had been thinking about during the course.

The book is a wonderful balance between theology and philosophy and praxis. After developing what I believe to be some good philosophical & theologial foundations to Emergent, Pete shares how Ikon has incorporated these foundational concepts into their community life. Pete also has an incredible way with language, and you will be drawn into his world of language from the very beginning. I commend this book to anyone who is interesting in learning more about Emergent or the church emerging.

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Tuesday 15 August 2006, 07:29

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