4.21.2008

Are you "Emergent"?

I have been a reader of Leadership Journal's blog "Land of Ur" for some time, and I have heard the term "emergent" Christian tossed all over the place lately. In one of their latest blog postings the following from Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck's book "Why I'm Not Emergent" is quoted and cause quite the response. I found it interesting but, moreover, it's a good laugh:

You might be an emergent Christian: if you listen to U2, Moby, and Johnny Cash’s Hurt (sometimes in church), use sermon illustrations from The Sopranos, drink lattes in the afternoon and Guinness in the evenings, and always use a Mac; if your reading list consists primarily of Stanley Hauerwas, Henri Nouwen, N. T. Wright, Stan Grenz, Dallas Willard, Brennan Manning, Jim Wallis, Frederick Buechner, David Bosch, John Howard Yoder, Wendell Berry, Nancy Murphy, John Frank, Walter Winks, and Lesslie Newbigin (not to mention McLaren, Pagitt, Bell, etc.) and your sparring partners include D. A. Carson, John Calvin, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and Wayne Grudem;...

If your idea of quintessential Christian discipleship is Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, or Desmond Tutu; if you don’t like George W. Bush or institutions or big business or capitalism or Left Behind Christianity; if your political concerns are poverty, AIDS, imperialism, war-mongering, CEO salaries, consumerism, global warming, racism, and oppression and not so much abortion and gay marriage; if you are into bohemian, goth, rave, or indie; if you talk about the myth of redemptive violence and the myth of certainty; if you lie awake at night having nightmares about all the ways modernism has ruined your life; if you love the Bible as a beautiful, inspiring collection of works that lead us into the mystery of God but is not inerrant; (read MORE here)

I can't figure out if this list is inerrant or simply inspired? I'm off to Starbucks to think about it. Am I emergent?

1 comment:

Eric Wright said...

I decided to write my own version...
http://www.themergeblog.com/2008/04/why-i-am-not-modern-despite-many.html

Let me know what you think?