A Knowledge Community is the community that comes out of a shared knowledge-base. One knowledge community that I would consider myself an avid member of would be the Christian community. In college, Christian knowledge communities are broken up into student ministries. The ministries share the same basic values and all of them look to the Bible as their source of knowledge. I am a member of the ministry the Navigators whose mission is, “to know Chist and make him known.”

Jenkins suggests that the knowledge culture serves as "the invisible, intangible engine" for the circulation and exchange of commodities. (27) This is true within Christian culture. Commodities in the form of Christian literature, blogs, sermons, etc. are circulated among ministries, churches and other Christian knowledge communities. The FSU Navigators, and I would imagine all of the other ministries here at Florida State and across the country, have a Twitter, a Facebook and a website that is constantly being updated with new information (commodities) that is spread throughout the community. The invisible engine are my fellow knowledge community members and myself who seek to spread our shared knowledge of and love for God with the rest of the world.

New knowledge cultures that have arisen out of Evangelical Christianity are things like the Post-Modern Christian Movement. Like Jenkins explained does happen when new knowledge communities emerge, the ties to traditional views about the virgin birth, the sovereignty of God and even the authority of the Bible are questioned in the Post-Modern groups. Members may shift from one group to another as their needs change in new knowledge cultures, and while I don't think this happens often on the larger scale (as in people shifting between Post-Modern and Evangelical Christianity) it does happen on the smaller scale with churches and ministries. In fact, last year before I had fully committed myself to one ministry I went to Christian Campus Fellowship, Campus Crusade and Reformed University Fellowship at the same time!

Christianity has been around for centuries and is a word-wide religion. The knowledge communities that have come out of it are undoubtedly innumerable!