<P> The limits of interreligious conversation were tested in 2006 Emergent Village coordinator Tony Jones co-convened the first encounter of Emergent church and "Jewish emergent" leaders in a meeting co-hosted by Synagogue 3000, a Jewish nonprofit group . Emergent church scholar Ryan Bolger documented the meeting in a scholarly article co-authored with one of the organizers, while Jones recounted the episode, which had drawn criticism from conservative Christians, in his book The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier . </P> <P> While some Evangelicals emphasize eternal salvation, many in the emerging church emphasize the here and now . Participants in this movement assert that the incarnation of Christ informs their theology . They believe that as God entered the world in human form, adherents enter (individually and communally) into the context around them and aim to transform that culture through local involvement . This holistic involvement may take many forms, including social activism, hospitality and acts of kindness . This beneficent involvement in culture is part of what is called missional living . Missional living leads to a focus on temporal and social issues, in contrast with a perceived evangelical overemphasis on salvation . Drawing on research and models of contextual theology, Mobsby asserts that the emerging church is using different models of contextual theology than conservative evangelicals, who tend to use a "translation" model of contextual theology (which has been criticized for being colonialist and condescending toward other cultures); the emerging church tends to use a "synthetic" or "transcendent" model of contextual theology . The emerging church has charged many conservative evangelical churches with withdrawal from involvement in contextual mission and seeking the contextualization of the gospel . </P> <P> Christian communities must learn to deal with the problems and possibilities posed by life in the "outside" world . But of more importance, any attempt on the part of the church to withdraw from the world would be in effect a denial of its mission . </P> <P> Many emerging churches have put a strong emphasis on contextualization and, therefore, contextual theology . Contextual theology has been defined as "A way of doing theology in which one takes into account: the spirit and message of the gospel; the tradition of the Christian people; the culture in which one is theologising; and social change in that culture ." Emerging churches, drawing on this synthetic (or transcendent) model of contextual theology, seek to have a high view towards the Bible, the Christian people, culture, humanity and justice . It is this "both...and" approach that distinguishes contextual theology . </P>

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