Assessment of Emerging Church : John Hammett, ETS
29 Nov 2005
Don Carson’s book ‘Conversant with the Emerging Church’, caused quite a stir in it’s criticism of emergent and the emerging church. Emergent USA, put out a response to this and other criticisms, that requested other academics to respond to academic critiques such as Carson’s, to help us and keep Emergent accountable.
Stanley Mills P.hD, a friend of Emergent wrote a detailed response to Carson that many of us found helpful. A more recent response, taking up this challenge/request directly is by Dr John S. Hammett, professor of Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary who offers and assessment of Emerging Church.
You can read about his response and download his paper here. Unlike Stanley Mills, this is a response from someone not directly immersed in Emergent or Emerging church. Thanks to Anthony Billington from LST for passing this paper to me, and for letting me know that it was presented at the recent Evangelical Theological Society Conference earlier this month.
I’m digesting it at the moment and will write some of my thoughts tomorrow.
Tagged: Conversant-with-the-Emerging-Church, D-A-Carson, Emergent, Emerging-Church, ETS, John-Hammett, Key-Posts, Stanley-Mills
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9.37 pm on 29 Nov 2005
More Baptist Critique of Emerging Church
Jason Clark provided a link to the full paper written by Dr. Hammett, so instead of the article I posted earlier, this is a MUCH better read and straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. John Hammett on the Emerging Church
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2.29 am on 30 Nov 2005
Assessment of Emerging Church : John Hammett
Link: Assessment of Emerging Church : John Hammett. Don Carson’s book ‘Conversant with the Emerging Church’, caused quite a stir in it’s criticism of emergent and the emerging church. Emergent USA, put out a response to this and other criticisms, that …
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5.52 am on 30 Nov 2005
Assessment of Emerging Church : John Hammett
Link: Assessment of Emerging Church : John Hammett. Don Carson’s book ‘Conversant with the Emerging Church’, caused quite a stir in it’s criticism of emergent and the emerging church. Emergent USA, put out a response to this and other criticisms, that …
Comment by dh
9.45 pm on 30 Nov 2005
Dr. Hammetts response is so much better than Carson’s although foundationally I agree with Carson the attitude was a little off. Here after reading Hammetts work it perfectly spells out my concerns of Emergent. Jason you I feel hold the middle ground faifly well. Other than a few issues that I feel foundational that you don’t feel are foundational. Thanks Jase for the post on Dr. Hammett. It was a breath of fresh air to me. Do you think Dr. Hammett will get the same reaction as Carson’s? I hope not for he truly is trying to engage Emergent and is trying to help in love. I personally feel if he isn’t looked at least in a positive attitude like you and I agree on then maybe postmodernism will fall by the wayside. We must engage modern as well as post-modern or the divide will continue to widen which I feel is a disservice to the Body of Christ for a value to apoint postmodern Christianity but will not forsake the majority of Truth within Modern Christianity.
Comment by Steve Lehrer
7.36 pm on 2 Dec 2005
Hi Jason
I just posted my thoughts on the Hammett paper and it seems you and I are somewhat on the same page in our assessment of the emergent church movement so you might find it interesting. Check it out if you have time http://www.idsaudio.com/blog/
Comment by Jason Clark
2.10 pm on 4 Dec 2005
HI Steve, great to hear from you, I’ll check your blog out. Jason.
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