Listening in on a conversation among professors at Dallas Theological Seminary as they discuss the points of the various expressions of the emerging church movement. I am so fantastically excited by this dialogue! It is so fair and non-confrontational on all fronts. Honestly, there is a level of respect I honestly did not expect from a conservative, evangelical institution. During the conversation they bring up many diverse aspects of the movement and deal with them all fairly. Often they first applaud the work of various folks in the movement and then offer a word of caution against the dangers that, may or may not be real right now, but could be if certain paths are followed without enough foresight.
The profs affirm the health and balance that the emerging movement is bringing to the many parts of Christianity. Perhaps a conversation of this level coming from this corner of evangelicalism will spur on some more responsible debate from others in that tradition.
HT: TSK
Tags: emerging, emergent, christianity, theology
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David,
FYI, I not a pre-trib dispensational evangelical so I’m not of that “tradition.”
Hey Ken.
Sorry, I actually wasn’t speaking directly about your views on the topic. I was referring more toward your content. The “Driscoll confirming Southern Baptist fears” bit. I really just used your post as a summary of that encounter. I didn’t mean to implicate you directly with evangelicalism although I guess it came out that way.
-david.
David, just wanted to let you know that the DTS profs did two “dialogues” on emerging/emergent church, one in May 2006 and another in April 2007 (the one to which you linked). There is also some conference material from JP Moreland and Dan Kimball when they came to DTS: http://www.dts.edu/media/tags/?tag=emerging
Thanks John.
Dialogue was a sloppy term for the panel discussion.
I’m going to dive in to the rest of the materials.
David,
No harm done.
David, actually DTS calls the panel discussions “DTS Dialogue”. I probably shouldn’t have used the quotes in my first comment, I just meant to distinguish it from the conferences which are a different format.
This is good stuff. I’m going to spend some time digging through it. Thanks for the tipoff.