You are right. I’m absolutely 100% modern liberal in my theology. There is no doubt. I’ve very confident and comfortable in that viewpoint but that isn’t the collective view of “emergent”.

I think you are mistaken if you are looking for a different kind of theology becauase it doesn’t exist. I don’t speak for emergent. Most in Emergent are more conservative, but what is different about Emergent is the willingness for liberals like myself to converse and even build community with people that are more conservative. I’m in a “home church” that is filled with people from a wide variety of views. We all have dropped the idea that a community must declare itself on one side or the other. That is definately a new concept. None of the theological perspectives are new, but the concept of allowing multiple perspectives into the same conversation is very new. The goal is not to define the perfect systematic theology but to build community around tangible goals and missions and at that same time realizing that all the people willing to contribute will likely have A different theology. In the past, once a difference in theology was detected, relationships were ended and a new denomination or church was formed. This is why no person can claim a single theological perspective for Emergent. It is not a single person or a single perspective. It is a collection of vastly different perspectives all working together. Post-modern thinkers tend to move beyond the idea of classifying and building exclusive communities based on metaphysical beliefs and specific scriptural interpretations. The only requirement seems to be that you are willing to love, embrace, and work with people that may have different beliefs. That doesn’t mean we build a single watered-down faith, but instead we help each other develop many deep rich faith journeys all in one collective conversation. Where/when else has that ever been done in Christianity?