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Brian D. McLaren (born 1956) is a prominent Christian pastor, author, activist and speaker and leading figure in the emerging church movement.〔http://brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/the-emerging-church.html〕〔http://www.equip.org/articles/navigating-the-emerging-church-highway/〕〔http://www.tms.edu/tmsj/tmsj17j.pdf〕〔http://christianity.about.com/od/christiancelebrities/a/Brian-McLaren.htm〕 McLaren is also associated with postmodern Christianity and progressive Christianity and is a major figure in post-evangelical thought.〔http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Not-Conservative-Not-Liberal-Progressive-Brian-McLaren-06-13-2011.html〕〔http://www.christianpost.com/news/brian-mclaren-postmodern-christianity-understood-as-story-31238/〕〔http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/000018.html〕〔http://www.postost.net/2010/12/brian-mclaren-being-evangelical〕 He has often been named one of the most influential Christian leaders in America and was recognized by ''Time Magazine'' as one of the 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America in 2005. McLaren was also the founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, Maryland, which he left in 2006 to pursue writing and speaking full-time.〔http://www.crcc.org/content/page/brian-mclaren〕 ==Biography== Born in 1956, Brian McLaren graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with degrees in English (BA, summa cum laude, 1978, and MA, 1981). His academic interests include medieval drama, romantic poets, modern philosophical literature, and the novels of Dr. Walker Percy. He is also a musician and songwriter. After several years of teaching English and consulting in higher education, he left academia in 1986 to become the founding pastor of (Cedar Ridge Community Church ), a nondenominational church in the Baltimore-Washington region. The church has grown to involve several hundred people, many of whom were previously unchurched. In 2004 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the Carey Theological Seminary in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. McLaren has been active in networking and mentoring church planters and pastors since the mid-1980s, and has assisted in the development of several new churches. In spite of the intense criticism leveled at McLaren by some Evangelical leaders, he remains a popular speaker for campus groups and retreats as well as a frequent guest lecturer at seminaries and conferences, nationally and internationally. His public speaking covers a broad range of topics including postmodernism, biblical studies, evangelism, apologetics, leadership, global mission, church growth, church planting, art and music, pastoral survival and burnout, inter-religious dialogue, ecology, and social justice. McLaren is on the international steering team and board of directors for Emergent Village; a growing, generative friendship among missional Christian leaders, and serves as a board member for ''Sojourners'' and Orientacion Cristiana. He formerly served as board chair of International Teams, an innovative mission organization with 15 nationally registered members including the United States office based in Chicago, and has served on several other boards, including The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, and Off The Map.〔Off The Map Homepage http://www.offthemap.com〕 McLaren is married and has four children. He has traveled extensively in Europe, Latin America, and Africa, and his personal interests include ecology, fishing, hiking, kayaking, camping, songwriting, music, art, and literature. In September 2012, McLaren led a gay marriage commitment ceremony for his son Trevor and partner Owen Ryan at the Audubon Naturalist Society in Chevy Chase, Maryland, a ceremony officiated by a Universal Life minister. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian McLaren」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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