Good post by Doug Wilson here - much of it a critique of Brian McLaren. I'll quote selectively:
"The "neat and tidy" systematicians [to whom postmodernists react allergically] certainly tidy up some things that they ought not to. But neither do they believe that homosexual marriage is a difficult issue that the church has to learn how to "wrestle with." Some things are neat and tidy. If someone comes along and tries to confuse those issues, I assume that there is something deeply disordered in his theology prior to that point.
"I see us [Wilson and postmodernists like McLaren] as standing in completely different places -- and they got to their different place by a different route. The only thing we have in common is the place we are both urging people to leave. I want people to leave the false certainties of modernity for the genuine certainties of Scripture. They want people to leave the false certainties of modernity for a bundle of uncertainties masquerading as humility. The one thing that emergent preachers cannot do (and remain emergent) is thunder the Word. "Thus saith the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, hear the word of the Lord, you sons of men . . ." And yet Scripture says that the one who speaks should speak as the very oracles of God. Given their assumed (and unassuming) ethos, they simply cannot do this. Not without ground level repentance.
"When I cash out what that man [McLaren] is saying, I don't mind saying that he is a very real danger to the church.
"[We are] not ashamed of anything in the Bible, straight up, no apologies. He believes and embraces it all.... McLaren challenges the idols of modernity on the basis of nothing more than the current trendy zeitgeist. He is a theological me-tooer, one of our cutting edge chattering classes. So both Leithart and McLaren attack Enlightenment categories. But [we] pack a punch because [we are] standing on something -- the absolute Word of God."
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