Robert E. Webber’s books and articles on worship, generations, faith and evangelicalism provide a useful commentary on trends in North America, UK and down under.
His book, “The Younger Evangelicals”, published 2002, is a bit like Dave Tomlinson’s “The Post-Evangelical” coming to America.
As much as I find it hard to sit comfortably with some of his sweeping generalisations, I think Webber has done a good job of painting an emerging landscape of younger generations of church leaders on the edge. He writes about three streams of evangelicals: “traditional” evangelicals (1950-1975), “pragmatic” evangelicals (1975-2000) and younger evangelicals (2000-). Some of the shifts described are: propositionalism to narrative, rationalism to embodiment, market to mission, power to servanthood, information to formation, program to narrative, constraint to expression, rallies to relationship, and theory to action. Ancient Future Worship, Christian worship resources books and videos.
