Summary: Last year in Baltimore the Open and Relational Theologies session took a look at the Emerging Church. This session involves three conversations, with three participants in each. These conversations pertain to papers written by participants, but there will be no formal reading of the papers. The conversations explore issues in the emergent church as they relate to open and relational theologies. Presiding: Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University Presenting: Jeremy Fackenthal, Vincennes University Process Theopoetics and the Emergent Church: Inviting Collaboration and Relationality [pdf] Callid Keefe-Perry, Boston University Theological Epistemology in The Emergent Church: A Form of Paul Ricoeur's Relational Attestation Responding: Diana Butler Bass Presenting: Sara Rosenau, Drew University Becoming Emergent: Theorizing A Practicing Church Timothy Murphy, Claremont Lincoln University The Emergent Church in its Planetary Context [PDF] Responding: Bo Sanders, Claremont School of Theology Benjamin Cowan, Claremont Graduate University John R. Franke, First Presbyterian Church The Pluralist Reformation: Open Theology and the Practice of Emergent Christianity Responding: Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology
