It's more complicated than that...
I had a New Testament/Early Church professor in seminary who was notorious for saying, "It's more complicated than that." Usually, but not always, he was right about that. My church's adult forum book discussion group has decided to read a book entitled The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book by Timothy Beal. Beal is apparently one of those whom I call Neo-Evangelicals like Rachel Evans , R ob Bell , and others. Some might refer to this sub-group of American Christianity as the Emergent Church movement, and perhaps some of those people might actually identify as such, but I do not think that is a clean descriptor. The Emergent Church movement is more of what I call Generation X in ecclesial form. It is simply the attitudes of the MTV generation that can't be bothered to actually get off their duff and constructively engage civic society. They would just as soon drop out and do their own rebellious thing. In the Emergent Chur...