What is the Emerging Church? Full Text.
Critiques of the emerging church don't get much better than this. Scot's talk last weekend at Westminster Theological Seminary is now available. You can get the PDF from Mark at Sacred Journey. Scot's comments on the conference are blogged [thanks joe]
Can I make a suggestion? Let Mark be the guardian of the Full text PDF (holy grail style). Point to him and his PDF link but don't upload the file yourself. That will make it easy for Scot to manage it over the long haul or do a recall or edit . . . or add some more nice things to say about me. Thanks. This is probably a good practice anyway.
Snippet: "Here’s my point: if you narrow the emerging movement to Emergent Village, and especially to the postmodernist impulse therein, you can probably dismiss this movement as a small fissure in the evangelical movement. But, if you are serious enough to contemplate major trends in the Church today, at an international level, and if you define emerging as many of us do – in missional, or ecclesiological terms, rather than epistemological ones – then you will learn quickly enough that there is a giant elephant in the middle of the Church’s living room. It is the emerging church movement and it is a definite threat to traditional evangelical ecclesiology." Scot McKnight
Related: Reformation 1: Scot McKnight at Westminster
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andrew, I thought scot's talk was very significant and I hope that WTS puts up audio of all the talks from this conference. scot let me know that he's going to be posting the full-text from the talk at his own site, though I also linked to the PDF yesterday. I'm encouraging Scot to submit something along these lines to Christianity Today.
Posted by: stephen shields | October 30, 2006 at 01:30 PM
I'm in conversation with CT about this piece right now; if they wish to let me write a smaller version, then I will notify Mark and ask folks to take it down from their sites.
TSK -- thanks again for your leadership and encouragement.
Posted by: Scot McKnight | October 30, 2006 at 08:17 PM
"or add some more nice things to say about me. Thanks. This is probably a good practice anyway."
I like someone who is honest... I appreciate your blog and the things you write in it!
Seriously, it is a good idea to have links to the key documents rather than multiple versions floating around.
Good suggestion,
Posted by: michael bells | October 30, 2006 at 09:46 PM
Hey, thanks to you, Andrew.
Posted by: Joe Kennedy | October 31, 2006 at 01:18 AM
hey scot, that's great news!
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