You know you’re “Emergent” when…
October 10, 2005
You know you’ve read a few too many books, and you’ve sat through a few too many talks on nanotechnology and agrarian societies and antique furniture, and…well, this is just embarrassing, but I found myself writing “very Pagittian” in the margins of an article by J. Denny Weaver on Christology. I feel bad, like I should have previously written something like “very Jonesian” or “very Jones’ian” or “very Jones’sian” - but for the life of me, I can’t figure out what to do with the last name of Tony Jones (you see, I even gramatically-maneuvered that sentence, so I wouldn’t have to try and figure out how to make Tony’s last name possessive…).
At any rate, I suppose the first person I should have done this with is McLaren - but how would that work: “very McLarenian.”
But the quote is still good, and I still think it does sound like something Doug Pagitt would say. So, maybe in addition to Doug being linked to a feminist Catholic theologian, maybe now Doug has some connections with an Anabaptist theologian now as well.
Tags: Brian-McLaren, Emergent
Posted in Emergent
Adam Walker Cleaveland: 
October 11th, 2005 at 8:54 am
I think it would be “Jonesian.”
October 11th, 2005 at 11:11 am
The most proper way to say it would be “Jonesy.”
October 11th, 2005 at 1:28 pm
Hilarious!!!
October 11th, 2005 at 4:12 pm
what about jones-esque
October 11th, 2005 at 4:14 pm
well..im just informing you that im now post-Jonesian and that the quote is merely psuedo-Pagittian..
-g-
mark
October 11th, 2005 at 6:55 pm
Just for the record…
The proponents of Chalcedon that you seem to be rejecting (who claim it “transcended human particularity”) are remakably non-Chalcedonian, as Chalcedon was nothing less than a full scale affirmation of human particularity!
And of course Chalcedon is discussable and debatable - in fact the council was itself an attempt to overcome forced conformity - for the “Robber’s Synod” that Chalcedon was held to replace was ruled by raw violence, where the opposition was beat up and left to literally die.
October 12th, 2005 at 4:49 pm
Bro. Using that quote you’ve underlined in my Theology paper. Is that ok, even though I am clearly not Emerg/ent/ing/ified?
October 14th, 2005 at 1:25 am
wow
October 18th, 2005 at 9:22 am
I’ve seen the term McLarenesque used more often than McLarenian, circa 2003 - cf. http://www.dashhouse.com/darryl/2003/02/adventures_in_m.htm
October 20th, 2005 at 9:43 pm
Pagittine?
November 29th, 2005 at 11:11 pm
Hello Adam,
My name is Jason Roddy and I was looking for some information on the “robber’s synod” and I stumbled on your web log. I usually don’t read blogs, and I didn’t see anything about my topic but I thought it was cool that you were a God-seeking, Mac-loving, evangelising, Subaru-driving, book reading seminary student like me! I only wish that I were engaged! I am a 2nd year student at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Greenville, SC.
Regards,
Jason
November 29th, 2005 at 11:44 pm
Jason - thanks for the comment - however, you got something wrong. I’m not an “evangelising” student, I’m a Mac-loving & evangelising (meaning I EVANGELIZE FOR MAC-computers).
January 20th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
A word of advice for Mr. Jason Roddy - if I were you, I wouldn’t be so free with my real name on a blog run by someone (a) whom you don’t even know, and (b) whose personal stance you so easily misunderstood.