tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824920426568398365.post8153216218904129152..comments2013-11-17T19:04:11.415-06:00Comments on QG's Book Reviews: The Great Emergence by Phyllis TickleJody Harringtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08031378214797420014noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824920426568398365.post-34596929751623808662010-10-26T10:09:03.348-05:002010-10-26T10:09:03.348-05:00Robin, Thanks so much for commenting over here. I ...Robin, Thanks so much for commenting over here. I would love to hear your response after reading the book.<br /><br />Jane Ellen--I appreciate the deeper explanation of the Anglican tradition. Thanks!Jody Harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08031378214797420014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824920426568398365.post-90007351486545722822010-10-26T09:19:09.518-05:002010-10-26T09:19:09.518-05:00I felt the same about much of what i read in this ...I felt the same about much of what i read in this book. The general theme of an overarching 500-year cycle is plausible, and I find it helpful to look at current events through that lens; but I was also bothered by what you term "imprecise thinking." In a former life as an engineer I was used to more demanding standards and less fuzzy logic; as a priest I see no reason to expect less in a theological argument.<br /><br />I will add a nuance to your explanation of the Anglican "three-legged stool" metaphor. It does not mean that we accept scripture, tradition and reason to be equally authoritative, but rather that the church does not stand alone on any single leg. They are listed in priority order, if you will: holy scripture, interpreted through the Traditions of the Church (that's capital T, meaning more than how my mother always did it, and capital C, meaning the whole of Christendom) and God-given reason.Jane Ellen+https://www.blogger.com/profile/07930706962327994732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824920426568398365.post-118416709603790312010-10-26T06:34:59.827-05:002010-10-26T06:34:59.827-05:00I'm going to comment over here as a way of enc...I'm going to comment over here as a way of encouraging this blog along.<br /><br />I've been an admirer of Phyllis Tickle's since discovering her autobiography when it came out, and I think that she did a great service to her Protestant readers (me, for instance), in introducing us to the office of divine hours in her subsequent books.<br /><br />I haven't read this one, since whenever I encounter the Great Emergence, it seems to be the Little Re-emergence, a discovery of church practices and inclinations developed 1500 years ago. Not that I don't find those things to be of tremendous value -- I do -- and not that I don't believe that they should be introduced and re-enlivened for subsequent generations -- I do. But I think that we should approach them rigorously and critically (in the traditional sense of the word) and engage in a dialogue among traditions as we adopt practices unfamiliar to us, rather than absorbing them in the kind of amorphous way that seems characteristic of the Great Emergence to me.<br /><br />Now I'll have to read the book, though! I'm feeling a wave of curiosity coming on. Amd I know there are lots of very smart and thoughtful and faithful people who think the Great Emergence is of great meaning, so maybe I'm just an old crank.Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01898073277524952683noreply@blogger.com