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  • According to this site the term was first used around 1997, however, the movement began in the mid 1980's. http://www.byfaithonline.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID323422%7CCHID664014%7CCIID2205592,00.html
  • Johann Baptist Metz, The Emergent Church: The Future of Christianity in a Postbourgeois World, trans. by Peter Mann (New York: Crossroad, 1981). This is the first mention of the term that I can remember in an actual published book over 25 years ago.

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