When will the EC become an IC?
When will the emerging church become institutionized? If you like fill-in-the-blank games the answer can be drawn from table 4 on page 44 of Robert Webber's book The Younger Evangelicals. Entiltled "The Cycles of Traditional, Pragmatic, and Younger Evangelical Histories" the table charts the following: Traditional Evangelicals - Origin, Modern Post-World War II Era (1950-1970), Organized 1970-1980, Institutionalized 1970-1990; Pragmatic Evangelicals - Origin, Revolution of the Sixties (1970-1980), Organized 1980-1990, Institutionalized, 1990-2000; Younger Evangelicals - Postmodern, Post-9/11 Era (2000-?), however, under Organized and Institutionized Webber has to leave the chart blank. Yet if one were to apply the information for the previous cycles to the last one may fill in the blanks like so; Organized 2010-2020, Institutionalized 2020-2030.
As I said it's only a guessing game.
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