This companion study guide to Coffeehouse Theology will help you explore ways to live out your theology in daily life. Each session will help you reflect on the main points of Coffeehouse Theology while also working through some of theology’s contextual, biblical, historic, and global aspects.Theology should breathe life and unity among God's people, but it often creates barriers and misunderstandings in the study of God. Author Ed Cyzewski seeks to build a method for theology that is rooted in a relationship with God and thrives on dialogue."Freelance theologian Cyzewski... urges readers to explore theology while reassuring them that they don't have to become postmodern philosophers: theology can be considered, as it were, in the coffeehouse. Arguing that "[o]ur local settings and cultural values--in other words, our context--influence how we read God's Word," Cyzewski approaches "contextual theology" by weaving together discussions of mission, culture, God, Scripture, tradition and the global church. Personal anecdotes of his own growth in faith are disarming in their honesty. While this accessible work is a useful introduction to aspects of Emergent theology, Cyzewski's summary of modernism and postmodernism is sometimes too sketchy to be useful; however, each chapter includes valuable suggestions for further reading... This addition to books about emerging and missional forms of Christianity ends on a hopeful note for unity across denominations." (Sept.) --Publisher's Weekly Review