I am just about finished with Phyllis Tickle’s most recent book, The Great Emergence, and I have found it fascinating. Tickle will be at St. Nick’s next Fall, and I hope we can do a Parish Study Group on at least this book and perhaps another.
The book talks about what she sees as huge changes in Christianity, analogous to those in the 5th, 10th, and 16th centuries (you see the pattern here), and connected with the huge social and intellectual challenges of the last century or so.
If she is even close to right, the implications are enormous for places like Saint Nicholas’, which is trying to find a faithful way to be the church is a world that is shifting around us in all sorts of ways. If you would like to read and discuss the book, please enter a comment below and we can begin.
Father Jim, I’ve really missed our class, and I would be interested in reading and discussing this book. My schedule is somewhat complicated, but at the very least I could participate in online discussion.
That sounds great. Anybody else out there interested in going through the book together? It is one of those very rare books that I think would reward a second reading, so I’m ready to do, maybe, a chapter by chapter discussion.
I would be very interested in reading her book and discussing it in a group. I’m always interested in hearing other’s points of view and think it would make hearing her talk more meaningful.
I hope to start a reading/discussion group on the book this September. I think it would be a great way into her visit, and I would like to hear some other voices on what she has to say. Thanks for your comment, and I’m looking forward to following up.