Michael Kruse : Emerging Church and Obama

Read the rest of the article here… Kruse makes a keen observation about emerging Evangelicals:

One of the most ironic things I’ve seen in this election is the broad embrace of Obama by so many Emergent or emerging church folks. The vary name “Emergent” comes from the philosophical notion of “emergence,” which Wikipedia explains refers to, “…the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.” Thus, the emerging church resistance to hierarchical ecclesiastical structures and the cherished notion of generative communities giving witness against the Empire (in true Hauerwasian fashion) in their independent contexts, watching new ways of being spontaneously emerge and converge.

Yet when it comes to justice and governance, so many of this community warmly embrace repackaged modernist visions of perfectible humanity through government supported individualism, with its corresponding assault on the mediating institutions of society. Their idealistic quest for justice in the face the Empire places the populous evermore firmly into the grasp of a centralized empire.

I hadn’t thought of it that way. What do you think?