Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church - Review

Just finished reading Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church by D A Carson.

A review link is posted here - to which I would probably agree in the main.

I really enjoyed the read. Indeed, I savoured every moment. Some of Carson's writing is a bit thick in patches, but definately worth wading through. And the critique is non-stop, especially of Brian McLaren et al. Nice to know that doctrinal slipperiness can be firmly nailed down for what it is.

My biggest issue is that the book was TOO SHORT. But I will have to delve into Carson's back catalogue for sympathetic material - he cribbed a whole chapter from The Gagging of God (1996) - I book that was recommended to me many moons ago but I have still not gotten around to reading.

And my copy of The Younger Evangelicals still sits on my bookshelf unread (right next to The Da Vinci Code - also unread) - but no longer. No, I will read it (and The Da Vinci Code!) in the light of Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church and draw my own conclusions.