The Naked Anabaptist: Book Review
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The Naked Anabaptist: The Bare Essentials of a Radical Faith by Stuart Murray ; Herald Press (2010) In The Naked Anabaptist, Stuart Murray makes a case for Anabaptism as the "original" emerging church movement . It's a bold assertion, and one that has merit considering it was part of the 16th-century version of the Church's 500 year rummage sale (read Phyllis Tickle 's The Great Emergence for more about this). Murray sees modern Anabaptism as more of a theological underpinning that could easily be embraced in a variety of Christian communities. He also sees the end of " Christendom " as the perfect time for Anabaptism to find a real foothold in Christian culture. Murray assumes as fact that we are living in a post-Christendom historical moment--a moment he describes thusly: the culture that emerges as the Christian faith loses coherence within a society that has been definitively shaped by the Christian story ans as the institutions that have