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The emerging church movement tends to reject church hierarchy, has a strong focus on ''praxis'' - the practical consequences of faith, and tends to prefer theology as narrative rather than systematic.
The emerging church movement tends to reject church hierarchy, has a strong focus on ''praxis'' - the practical consequences of faith, and tends to prefer theology as narrative rather than systematic.


Conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists often criticize the emerging church, alleging that it's unorthodox or heretical in it's embrace of postmodernism, which undermines Biblical truth.
Conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists often criticize the emerging church, alleging that it's unorthodox or heretical in its embrace of postmodernism, which undermines Biblical truth.

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The emerging church movement is a recent Christian (mostly Protestant) movement that seeks to cater to the attitudes and experiences of what it sees as people who are postmodern, Generation X and "post-Christian" through a deconstructive and conversational approach to Christianity. Participation in the emerging church is often seen as a reaction to the overbearingly politicization of the evangelical right-wing.

The emerging church movement tends to reject church hierarchy, has a strong focus on praxis - the practical consequences of faith, and tends to prefer theology as narrative rather than systematic.

Conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists often criticize the emerging church, alleging that it's unorthodox or heretical in its embrace of postmodernism, which undermines Biblical truth.