Four helpful (and sound) categories for engaging the Emerging Church conversation

I found this input from Richard Rohr extremely helpful to put a finger on the emerging conversation in relation to the Church.

What do you think?

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On the verge of the first-ever Catholic-Emergent conference, being held this weekend at the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, here?s a video of Fr. Richard Rohr from January?s webcast. Here Rohr describes the four categories (or, rather, aspects or characteristics) of ?emerging church? as he sees it:

Here are Rohr?s four categories/aspects/characteristics:

• "an honest, broad, ecumenical Jesus scholarship"
• "a contemplative mind"
• "a conclusion that many of the major concerns of Jesus are at major variance with what most of our churches have emphasized"
• "new structures ? new community mechanisms that can make this [new reformation] possible, because we don?t want to form a new denomination"

Please discuss in the comments your thoughts/reactions to Rohr's four categories/characteristics of "emerging church."

Related: Catholics join Emerging Church conversation ? great quotes from an original Brian McLaren interview, as well as more quotes from the Rohr webcast

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I would love to hear other approaches, ideas and some feedback. This made a lot of sense to me as I think about my frustrations with the Church and my 'emerging' perspective on Church.

By the way my lecture at Hinde street propossed three similar theological categories. I hope to have the final version of the text completed early this week and uploaded to the Hinde Street site where you can download it.