snippet on the emergent church

Perhaps you've heard of the Emergent Church, a movement within Christianity that embraces various aspects of post-modernism. You might thus appreciate this quote I found on the blog of Doug Wilson, in an entry called "Postmodernism Is, As Derrida Might Say, Le Dead."

I am continuing to slog my way through McLaren and Raschke, left hand raised high so I won't get any on my watch. And I have come to the settled conclusion that postmodernism is dead. Why do I think this? What is the evidence? The proof is conclusive--we can tell that postmodernism is dead because contemporary evangelicals have started to embrace it. The party ceases to be cool when the nerd shows up.

In case you're interested--D.A. Carson will soon be finishing a book on the movement. If the book is anything like some of his lectures I heard recently, he will be fair, kind, and willing to acknowledge the good points in the movement, but also able to dish some very sharp criticism of the movement.