The Emerging Storm: DA Carson, Andrew Jones and Scot McKnight

It's a sign of our new media environment that DA Carson's Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church has been discussed now for quite some time even before it's anticipated June 2005 publication.

Andrew Jones gives us a heads up about a significant new voice in this ec storm conversation: Scot McKnight. Scot's entrance into the fray is interesting from a few angles:

• He's an evangelical heavyweight. Scot's the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University, the author of over 10 books including Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels and served as co-editor of the wonderful Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels which I've been pulling down from my shelf for years.
• Scot's recently shown some interest in the ec with comments on Andrew's blog, comments on my blog, and on one of my articles.
• Perhaps most relevantly, in his own words, Scot
  
  I am a former colleague of DA Carson’s at TEDS; I had the office next to his for years; he is my friend; I consider him an expert;

Scot seems to be positioning himself as a helpful arbiter between Carson's critique and the emerging church. He's already posted

• DA Carson and the Emergent Movement (oops, there's that Emergent / Emerging Church thing again), part one,
• part two
• part three
• part four

We look forward to hearing from this new voice and welcome Scot to the conversation!