Deep Church

By Jason

18 Jul 2006

Kings College London

I just back from a meeting with Prof Andrew Walker, up at Kings College, London. It was my first time meeting with him, and it was so wonderful to hear from someone with so much experience of church over so long a period. I just wish our paths had crossed sooner.

In particular I was excited to hear about the Deep Church, ideas Andrew is formulating with others, that has a real affiinity with Emergent, and our deep ecclessiology and generous orthodoxy values.

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  1. Comment by michael bells

    3.25 am on 19 Jul 2006

    Are you going to post a little bit on what Deep Church is all about? You’ve got me curious

  2. Comment by GMD

    3.42 pm on 19 Jul 2006

    I’ll second that, just wondering what deep church looks like.

  3. Comment by Jason

    7.33 am on 20 Jul 2006

    quick reply…some of the ideas of Deep church would be the need to retrieve traditions from pervious churches, as well as valuing the church in it’s broadest sense, rather than a post-church response…more to follow!

  4. Comment by Paul Fromont

    10.46 pm on 20 Jul 2006

    Andrew is a person I’d like to meet too, particularly with regards the “Centre for Theology, Religion & Culture.” I was just reading an old paper he wrote of “day-dreaming” and the “examen”. Great little book too, Spirituality in the City.

  5. Comment by Robin Parry

    7.22 pm on 1 Aug 2006

    Dear all,

    you may be interested in the Deep Church series edited by Andrew Walker and published by Paternoster. The first volume is Ian Stackhouse’s “Gospel-Driven Church”. Vol 2 is by a patristics scholar called D.H. Williams and is called “Evangelicals and Tradition”. The next book will be a brilliant collection edited by Andrew and Luke Bretherton called “Remembering Our Future: Eassys for a Deep Church” (in about 12 months). After that we hope to have a short book by Andrew called “The Third Schism”.

    The name ‘deep church’ was coined by C.S. Lewis and it means something very much the same as his other, more famous, name ‘mere Christianity’. As Jason said, ‘deep church’ is about retrieving The Great Tradition of the church universal (the catholic faith with a small ‘c’) in order to empower the church to live God’s way in God’s world. Hence the title of the forthcoming book ‘remembering our future’.

    All the best

    Robin (editiorial co-ordinator for Paternoster)

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