Brian D. McLaren

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1. Brian D. McLaren

   Author of A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-Hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian, A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey, The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian

2. Leonard I. Sweet

   Author of SoulTsunami, Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives, A Is for Abductive

3. N. T. Wright

   Author of Jesus and the Victory of God, The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture, Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship

4. Donald Miller

   Author of Blue Like Jazz, Searching for God Knows What, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

5. Rob Bell

   Author of Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith, Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections between Sexuality and Spirituality, Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile

6. Doug Pagitt

   Author of Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church, An Emergent Manifesto of Hope (emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith), Preaching Re-Imagined

7. Dallas Willard

   Author of The Divine Conspiracy, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives

8. Eugene H. Peterson

   Author of Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology, Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading, The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way

9. Dan Kimball

   Author of The Emerging Church, They Like Jesus but Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations, Emerging Worship: Creating Worship Gatherings for New Generations

10. Shane Claiborne

    Author of The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals

11. Tony Jones

    Author of The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life (Emergent YS), Postmodern Youth Ministry, The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier

12. Scot McKnight

    Author of The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible, A Community Called Atonement (Living Theology)

13. Michael Frost

    Author of The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church, Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church

14. Mike Yaconelli

    Author of Messy Spirituality, Dangerous wonder, Stories of Emergence: Moving from Absolute to Authentic (Emergent YS)

15. Robert Webber

    Author of The Younger Evangelicals: Facing the Challenges of the New World, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Ancient-Future), The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Ancient-Future)

16. Erwin Raphael McManus

    Author of The Barbarian Way: Unleash the Untamed Faith Within, An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind

17. Peter Rollins

    Author of How (Not) to Speak of God, The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief, The Orthodox Heretic: And Other Impossible Tales

18. Stanley Hauerwas

    Author of Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony, Christian Existence Today: Essays on Church, World, and Living in Between, Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations Between a Radical Democrat and a Christian (Theopolitical Visions)

19. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Author of Discipleship, Life Together

20. Stanley J. Grenz

    Author of A Primer on Postmodernism, Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context