I probably have a post on that thread Pilgrim put up there. Just about every post I've put up here I mention something about the Emergent Church because I've been dealing with it at my church for a couple of years now. My church has turned emergent because of our former pastor bringing it in. Your analysis so far is correct. My husband has come right out and called him (McLaren) a heretic. I unfortunately have read way too many emergent books because this was all openly promoted by our former pastor last year.
I'm almost done with D.A. Carson's book. It's pretty good in my opinion after reading so much of McLaren myself. What's interesting in Carson's book is that he mentioned Steve Chalke and his book "The Lost Message of Jesus". Now there's an outright heretic for you. Unbelievable! If you read Carson's book you'll read the quotes from Chalke. Chalke is Britian's "spokesman" there like "McLaren" is here. There are a couple of CDs from John MacArthur's Sheperd's Conference 2005 by Phil Johnson on postmodernism - the emergent church, McLaren too that I would recommend.
Also there is a website blog by Carla Rolfe (a Reformed Christian) who has decided to expose the many errors in the emergent church -
http://www.emergentno.blogspot.com/Also Tim Challies
http://challies.com/ has done some writing and reviews on some of the emergent authors and also Bob DeWaay at Twin City Fellowship
http://twincityfellowship.com/ has some critiques of McLaren. His critique of McLaren's "Generous Orthodoxy" was well said. He wrote exactly what I would write (if I were a good writer).
