{"id":229,"date":"2006-11-27T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tonyj.net\/2006\/11\/27\/of-straw-men\/"},"modified":"2015-03-13T17:11:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T22:11:27","slug":"of-straw-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2006\/11\/27\/of-straw-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Straw Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019ve had an interesting email conversation with my new friend, Jeff<\/a> (aka, Senor Jefe). He responded to my post<\/a>, on the Emergent Village blog, about STR\u2019s Brett Kunkle, and the paper that Brett delivered to the Evangelical Theological Society a couple weeks back.<\/p>\n

Jeff argues that Brett creates straw men<\/a>, only to knock them down. I\u2019ve often had this concern about the critics of Emergent, and it\u2019s nice to hear that someone else sees that tendency, too. Several times a week, I get an emails that go something like this: \u201cI think that you emergents are in danger of ________. Can you tell me if you are or aren\u2019t?\u201d I respond by asking for spcific examples of said heresy, and I get back a quote from a McLaren book that doesn\u2019t explictly name the heresy, but maybe dances near it. It seems to me that Brett does this in his paper: these guys aren\u2019t heretics, but the things they say make me think that maybe, someday, they will be.<\/p>\n

This raises all sorts of questions, like,<\/p>\n