"Just an updated note on my use of terminology. I am not working in a way that distinguishes the terms emergent and emerging as some wish to do."

That's like refusing to distinguish between the terms Baptist and Protestant in a conversation that involves Protestants of many stripes. The differences between the Emergent crew and the broader Emerging Church may seem inconsequential in America where Emergent Village dominates the Emerging Church conversation, but it is very significant when you look beyond America to Emerging Church voices in countries like Australia where a more missional ethos holds sway. To define a world movement by what happens in America is typically American ... but academically unconscionable.