2010 2015-04-28 10.17192/mjr.2010.15.3420 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2010-109-34202 keine Angabe ‘Inhabiting a space on the outer edges of religious life’: The Radical Emergent Christian Community of Ikon What has come to be known as the ‘Emerging Church’ (or colloquially as the ‘emergents’) amounts to an innovating, if somewhat controversial contemporary Christian movement that attempts to be spiritually relevant in the contemporary cultural setting to both its adherents and those outside of its loosely demarcated boundaries. In this paper I overview one significant example of the movement’s more radical wing, the Belfast-based Ikon community in Northern Ireland. i The paper argues that, on the one hand, Ikon exemplifies the means by which a distinctly innovating and even intentionally provocative religious constituency endeavours to forge a juxtaposition within postmodernity. On the other, Ikon self-consciously attempts to avoid conforming to any typology and deliberately escape conceptualization, even underlining its own failures in what it aspires to be. The paper will indicate that the attempt to resist constricting characterizations is embedded in the very nature of the philosophical standpoints and theological leanings (such as they exist) embraced by the community as it seeks a unique but definitive Christian response to the challenges of postmodernity.

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2015-04-28 application/pdf 2015-04-28 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2010/109/3420/3420.png ‘Inhabiting a space on the outer edges of religious life’: The Radical Emergent Christian Community of Ikon urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2010-109-34202 Stephan Hunt Hunt, Stephan 2010 article https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2010.15.3420 English Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg What has come to be known as the ‘Emerging Church’ (or colloquially as the ‘emergents’) amounts to an innovating, if somewhat controversial contemporary Christian movement that attempts to be spiritually relevant in the contemporary cultural setting to both its adherents and those outside of its loosely demarcated boundaries. In this paper I overview one significant example of the movement’s more radical wing, the Belfast-based Ikon community in Northern Ireland. i The paper argues that, on the one hand, Ikon exemplifies the means by which a distinctly innovating and even intentionally provocative religious constituency endeavours to forge a juxtaposition within postmodernity. On the other, Ikon self-consciously attempts to avoid conforming to any typology and deliberately escape conceptualization, even underlining its own failures in what it aspires to be. The paper will indicate that the attempt to resist constricting characterizations is embedded in the very nature of the philosophical standpoints and theological leanings (such as they exist) embraced by the community as it seeks a unique but definitive Christian response to the challenges of postmodernity. 2015-06-12 15 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2010/109/cover.png Vol 15 No 1 (2010) https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/cover.png Institute for Comparative Cultural Research - Study of Religions and Anthropology Religion Philosophy and theory of religion 1996 1418722-x Periodical urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-00048 Marburg Journal of Religion 1612-2941 Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften und Philosophie Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg Marburg Philipps-Universität Marburg 2010-04-28 2010 PeriodicalPart https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2010.15.1 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2010-1098

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