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Remembering Our Future
‘Deep Church’ is about remembering our past in order to face our future. At the heart of the ‘Deep Church’ conversation lies the attempt to reconnect with “a common Christian tradition from the apostles to the councils, creeds, and writings of the fathers of the early church” (Remembering Our Future, xvi). But, very importantly, “The vision for a deep church is neither an attempt to simply restate or repristinate the Christian tradition, this is tantamount to ancestor worship; nor does it take its bearings from the emerging culture, to do this is simply to assimilate the prevailing hegemony; rather, to be a deep church means to stand on the cusp or the breaking point of both the Christian tradition and the emerging culture, deeply rooted in the former while fully engaged in the latter” (Remembering Our Future, xviii).
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