WHY WE’RE NOT EMERGENT
By Kevin Deyoung and Ted Kluck
Moody Publishers. 256 pages. £9.99
ISBN 978 0 802 458 346
The recent book Love Wins by Rob Bell, which has caused such a stir with its peddling of a stylishly hip universalism, comes from the stable of the so-called ‘emergent church’.
This book by Kevin Deyoung and Ted Kluck gives a readable and telling assessment of the emergent church (EMC). The joint authorship works well. Deyoung is a young, theologically astute pastor from Michigan. Ted Kluck is a sports journalist with a more story-telling approach. They write alternate chapters and provide a well-balanced critique.
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