Brewin's mistake

I went to the Blah at Manchester on October 21 (I know its a while back but at least I care enough to blog it now!). Kester Brewin was speaking at Nexus under the Methodist Centre on Oldham Road. While I do like to hear what the convesation for emerging church is saying, I do feel that there was little of real relevance here. Brewin's book, which he did promote at the evening, makes sweeping generalisations about the state of the church and the validity of the emergening church. I see so little about bible and when he does relate his position to scripture his interpretation is spurious to say the least. His knowledge of church history is negligible and his foundational references to the contemporary church seem fueled by poor experiences in his own locality. When the unjustified position he calls emergence as a divine prerogative following the example of Incarnation (and evolution as a creative action) is promoted it is done so with no theological basis. I do believe that his position on the personal change adopted by God in Incarnation is a regurgitation of a half heard discussion on process theology. It is not his field and his commitment to understanding the disciplines of theology and ecclesiology shows through as wholly inadequate to the task.