books by Doug Pagitt

books by Doug Pagitt

books:

Doug Pagitt

Emergent Manifesto of Hope, An (emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)

Baker Books, 2008

Multi-faceted jewel well worth the read!
The Manifesto of Hope is a collection of essays by a plurality of voices who associate with the Emergent Village. The diversity helps to reveal what many of us already know--The emergent village conversation among friends is anything but homogeneous. While some who ...

BodyPrayer: The Posture of Intimacy with God

Doug Pagitt, Kathryn Prill

WaterBrook Press, 2005

a great resource
This book is a fantastic resource not only for one's private devotional life, but for an entire community, helping to lead through various types of prayer. Each chapter is a different type of prayer, with a short explanation, a written prayer and a "prayer posture"- ...

Preaching Re-Imagined: The Role of the Sermon in Communities of Faith

Doug Pagitt

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2005

Great Insight
Doug Pagitt makes an excellent case for dialogue prior to, during and after a sermon between the preacher in the pulpit and those in the pews. I have been a pew sitter most of my life and welcome his desire to open up the discussion between the pulpit and the pews. ...

Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church

Doug Pagitt

Zondervan, 2004

"I am" because "we are"
An insider's glimpse into the heart of a community seeking the source of its oneness. Finding that in hearing one another's stories - to the point of seeing real difference - they can find a unity in diversity that is Spirit formation. Multiple voice are heard ...

Church Re-Imagined: The Spiritual Formation of People in Communities of Faith (Emergentys)

Doug Pagitt

Zondervan, 2005

Not a method, but a great direction in which to move...
This is a retitling of the earlier-released "Re-Imagining Spiritual Formation." It may be that you are coming to realize that the program-driven, "what can you do for me now" consumer approach to Christianity is quickly becoming unworkable. Sure... it may seem still ...

An Emergent Manifesto (Hardcover) / The Out of Bounds Church? / Signs of Emergence - 3 Book Set
Doug Pagitt

Bethany House, 1999

An Emergent Manifest of Hope: Now in paper, An Emergent Manifesto of Hope represents a coming together of divergent voices into a conversation that pastors, students, and thoughtful Christians can now learn from and engage in. The Out of Bounds Church?: A creative and thorough exploration of what it can mean to be church in a postmodern world. ...

Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches: Five Perspectives

Mark Driscoll, John Burke, ...

Zondervan, 2007

The Theologianhood Of The Believer...
...is what emerging churches are about, at least according to this book (with the exception of Mark Driscoll's contributions). I say "contributions" because each of the five contributors not only writes a chapter of his/her own, but responds to each of the chapters by ...

A Christianity Worth Believing: Hope-filled, Open-armed, Alive-and-well Faith for the Left Out, Left Behind, ...

Doug Pagitt

Jossey-Bass, 2008

Compelling, Beautiful and Hope-Filled...Christianity?
Welcome to a Christianity still forming, a faith that is compelling and beautiful and filled with hope, a God who is not remote and difficult to appease but one who is "down and in," present and active in a our lives and world. Welcome to A Christianity Worth ...