Reddit reviews Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional

I found Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional to be very helpful and challenging.

Jim Belcher is a PCA pastor, so he's not advocating that we abandon the traditional, confessional denominations, despite what the wording of the title might lead you to think.

Belcher is very gracious and thorough in his handling of Emergent Church writers, but he doesn't let them off the hook, either.

As an Orthodox Christian, I'm interested in the way emergent people are asking the same questions we've been asking all along.

• Isn't Evangelicalism captive to Enlightenment values and worldview?
  
• Isn't Evangelical ecclesiology [understanding of what it is to be the Church] weak and ineffective?
  
• Isn't the Evangelical gospel overly focused on personal justification?
  
  ..and so on.
  
  Jim Belcher's excellent book Deep Church](http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Church-Beyond-Emerging-Traditional/dp/0830837167) is a sympathetic overview of the issues emergent Christians identify as needing new, better answers, and some of the things they've proposed instead. The answers they come up with tend to be constrained by their western paradigm, but many of their questions and criticisms are the same ones I'd offer.