Is there such a thing? I wouldn't be suprised, as there is much overlap in what both care about. Right now there's a very interesting conversation at Emergent Africa between a Reformed Baptist pastor in his 50's, a young reformed emergent, a postmodern pastor and myself (who is a ? I'll go with "Anglican" today). The conversation has been done many times in different places: thoughts on modernism/postmodernism, truth, using "modernist" terms in an attempt to define postmodernism and what common ground we have. I'm enjoying it!

Ever heard of Mark Driscoll? In fact quite a few emergent pastors in the States lean quite heavily towards a reformed theological position. There are also a lot of younger reformed pastors out there doing ministry that on some levels looks very emergent.

"The Young Reformed Emergent"

Posted by: Stephen Murray 05 Jun, 2006 - 21:26:09

Ja, Mark said some quite nasty things about Doug Pagitt last year. I thought it was very funny but some people took it rather personally.

It's refreshing to have reformed voices in the conversation because emergents have been accused of being the new liberals.

And Spooh - you're everywhere! How did you discover this site (thereby doubling its readership!)?

Posted by: Roger Saner 06 Jun, 2006 - 10:00:26

I'm a sucker for information! And I've always enjoyed reading Graeme's articles in the past so when I found out he had a site I couldn't resist.

By the way Mark Driscoll did apologize for the tone of his reply and his use of langauge, but he didn't withdraw his convictions. I think people considering the emergent movement can learn a lot from Driscoll's reflections on the movement, it's leaders and it's compatability with theology.

I also think there are people straying dangerously close to neo-liberalism - there's just too many parrallels between some of the thoughts and comments flying around the emergent movement and some of the thoughts and comments that flew about just prior to neo-liberalism taking off.

Posted by: Stephen Murray 06 Jun, 2006 - 12:24:36

Well, according to my theological worldview ( http://www.futurechurch.co.za/item/my-theological-worldview ) (and everyone knows how accurate these tests are!), I'm quite strongly neo-orthodox, which is quite cool (I guess) but I don't know what most of those really mean. What's noe-liberalism?

Posted by: Roger Saner 06 Jun, 2006 - 13:09:22

Well Roger, you don't have to worry about being a neo-liberal because the one group of people that Karl Barth and his Neo-Orthodoxians couldn't stand was the liberals - and with you being neo-orthodox and all (according to those 'highly accurate' tests) then I'm sure you can't be neo-liberal - whatever that is.

Posted by: Stephen Murray 06 Jun, 2006 - 21:17:01