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Title: Where's the Conversing
Review: If Carson actually cared about being open to new ideas and transformation within the Church, he would actually reach out to key figures in the Emergent conversation rather than taking things out of contexts of particular books. The title of the book demonstrates his complete ignorance, as there is not such thing as "the emergent church." Emergent is a conversation, re-evaluating and deconstructing our traditions and "traditional" approaches that is theological, ecclesial, and missional. Carson and other ivory-tower theologians can wear their suits and ties and sit in their offices all day and correct people when they stray from "orthodoxy," but until i see these guys get their hands dirty and get serious about addressing major problems in the evangelicalworld they inhabit I can't take them seriously (which may be a fault of mine- sorry Don).
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