The trouble is, Andew, that however you define the Emerging Church — whether as a separate movement, or a trans-denominational ‘rethink’, it is abundantly clear that it is intent on scratching out 2000 years of traditional belief and understanding of the Scriptures. Like Maria von Trapp, the E/C wants to start at the very beginning, which is indeed a very good place to start, but this ‘review’ wishes to lock NT teaching into a pre-AD70 only relevance — at least if the E/C is to be judged by contributions to this site. This leaves what for AD 2005? I know I have beaten this drum before, forgive me, but where is your certainty? What can the E/C offer a dying world beyond some kind of temporal Liberation Theology? St Paul declared that he knew whom he had believed — but can the E/C ever utter the same cry?