Dr. Bock, thank you for discussing this and providing information for us. It is so awesome to see a scholar discussing it and not dogmatically being against it. I go to a Southern Baptist church and my pastor told me and teaches that it is "heresy"...how sad. I guess anything but Baptist is heresy! I need to be educated more on what the movement is and from what I've heard I would tend to agree that it has pros and cons. I believe we can learn from all people, especially people in the body of Christ, regardless of denomination or whatever. I have read Donald Miller's and Rob Bell's books that are considered "emergent", and learned immensely from them and thought they had great things to say, though I didn't agree with everything. So, Dr. Bock, thank you for discussing the issue and not bashing it like most conservative scholars and pastors do and are doing. A pastor/scholar who starts off with "it is heresy" will not hold my attention very long. I guess they're just afraid of losing their sheep to different flocks or something and afraid other styles are from Satan...whatever.

Luke