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Research Summary

You can find a summary of what I learned about the Emerging Church in a PDF, here. Additionally, I will use this space to periodically release more updates, discussions and key points from my research. I hope that this information can be as useful for others as it has been for me. I have enabled comments on this blog, so please feel free to contribute to the conversation. [NOTE: Due to some initial technical difficulties, many of you may be linked to the archive page. Please click to Research Blog link to the right or click here in order to access the blog.]

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~ by jryanpackard on April 6, 2008.

6 Responses to “Research Summary”

  1. [...] stellt eine Zusammenfassung seiner Arbei als Artikel zum Download auf seinem Blog vor. Seine vier Hauptpunkte sind [...]

    Josh Packard’s Erkenntnisse at Journeyfiles said this on April 8, 2008 at 4:39 am

  2. Hi Josh!

    Thanks again for the paper, I just translated some of it and postet it on my german blog for the benfit of the german speaking Emergent Folk. I would be glad if you would continue to publish your insights and research stuff!
    Blessings from Karlsruhe, Germany

    Bjoern

    Bjoern Wagner said this on April 8, 2008 at 4:43 am

  3. Thanks for making your paper available, Josh. Got it printed out and will look forward to absorbing it!

    Brad Sargent said this on April 8, 2008 at 5:30 am

  4. Josh,

    This is a great path to go down. I assume you are well aware of Stark/Finke’s Acts of Faith. Some of your theses reminded me of the cycles of institutionalization that they talk about in that book.

    Thanks for sharing. I’m very very interested in this research and where you go with it — do you have plans to publish any kind of extensive paper, or do more of the same research to extend your data, or what?

    Jason said this on April 8, 2008 at 12:40 pm

  5. Thanks Jason. It’s been some time since I’ve picked up Acts of Faith, but as I remember, there are some good concepts from it. I’ll re-visit the cycles of institutionalization soon.

    This research is work from my dissertation and so there will be a series of academic research articles that I’ll write for journals. As far as a longer treatment suitable for a wider audience, I haven’t really considered that yet. I just defended the dissertation last month, but hopefully there will be a way to share longer and more detailed sections in the future. That sort of depends on interest, though. If is seems like people want to keep reading about this, then I’ll pursue some other (i.e., non-blog) publishing methods.

    Also, thanks for the copyedits. I’ve noted the corrections for the future.

    jryanpackard said this on April 8, 2008 at 1:55 pm

  6. Good stuff. Glad to be on the journey with you. Drop a line when you make it through Dallas again. Interesting developments along the same vain of your thoughts, though outside the “church” walls.

    justin nygren said this on April 8, 2008 at 5:04 pm

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