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Title: Turns out "Emergent" is just a synonym for "liberal."
Review: This book is a compelling portrait of an evangelical in epistemological crisis. His resolution? Infuse evangelical Christianity with liberal higher criticism theology. The only difference between Mclaren's Emergent Christianity and continental liberal Christianity is that he uses the latest graduate school words like "post-modernism" and "deconstruction." The book is primarily written to create "new kinds" of evangelicals and perhaps there are some good ideas within Emergent methodology for evangelical churches. However, if this book is an accurate representation of Emergent Theology, then it looks like the english writer G.K. Chesterson was right:"These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own."
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