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The Emerging Church’ is a contemporary Christian issue among Christians who are interested in understanding the church in terms of its origin, its essence, how it should be looked like, or how it must be working in the midst of the world. Broader term of ‘the emerging church’ is ‘missional church.’ The emerging church is one type of missional church. The phenomenon that various types of churches keep coming up means many churches do not function its own original roles. That is why Christian leaders, scholars or pastors try to describe the biblical church with different terms. The emerging church is a church came out because modern or traditional church has not well communicated the gospel with the postmodern people. The emerging church puts all their energy to create, develop, and innovate the tools or ways of communicating the gospel because there are numbers of shifts taking place in our world. The shifts are the way people understand science, the way people acknowledge the objective truth, and attitude toward spirituality. So the emerging church provides “Vintage” theology, continual theologizing, different ways of measuring success. This study will look at all these themes in more detail.

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I. Introduction
 II. Background of the emerging church
  1. Current situation of the church
 III. Major shifts as the context of the church in postmodern era
  1. Shift in the way people understand science
  2. Shift of the way people acknowledge the objective truth
  3. Spiritual openness of postmodern people
 IV. Main themes for biblical and theological foundation of the emerging church
  1. “Vintage” Theology
  2. Continual theologizing
  3. The emerging church measures success missionally
  4. Ecclesiology of the emerging church - How do they understand “Church”?
 V. Conclusion
 Bibliography
 Abstract

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• Lee, Gil-Pyo [ Lecturer of Hyupsung University ]

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