Scot McKnight, at a conference at Westminster Theological Seminary (October 26, 2006), urged that people in a group should be given the opportunity to say for themselves what they believe. This is fair enough.  On Scot's web site is a paper from Nov 1, 2005 which looks at the things that the emerging church movement (ECM) is protesting.  I'm sure we could all sympathize with a lot of it (of course, we always need to ask if the cure is worse than the disease).  A more recent essay by McKnight, incorporating much of what he said at Westminster, is available at Christianity Today.

Someone has said that trying to label "the emerging church" could be as problematic as labeling "Anabaptists" at the time of the Protestant reformation.  One needs to specify which Anabaptists he is talking about in order to avoid false generalizations.  Here at PBTS we are most concerned with the corner of the ECM called "Emergent Village" (EV).  The reason for this concern is twofold: (1) there has been an association between EV and BTS (or personnel who teach at BTS); (2) EV is involved in various ways with unbiblical teachings and practices (I am referring to major issues, not minor ones).

I have caused some amusement among my friends by saying that "The Book of Judges explains everything about the emerging church movement," and I have written an essay to try and make my point: "The Emerging Churches in the Book of Judges," available under "Foundations" at this web site.  I can't think of any better example of "doing what is right in one's own eyes" than becoming a homosexual because they have better bodies.  Again, I caution that the focus of this paper is on EV due to connections with BTS.  Another essay, "Does Jesus excommunicate churches?" addresses a feature of the ECM mentioned by McKnight, namely, that the ECM does not have an excessive "in versus out" mentality.  Naturally, we don't want to have an "excessive" anything (Moses starts his exposition of the law in Deuteronomy 4 by telling Israel not to add or take away from what he says, to go off to the left or to the right), but if we want to fulfill McKnight's admirable aspiration to "follow the way of Jesus" then we need to have just as much of an "in versus out" mentality as our Lord does, if he in fact is our Lord.

Besides these essays, you might be interested in Tim Keller's opinion of ECM.  Actually, if you read Dave Dunbar's letter to alumni referencing Tim Keller's paper, and then looked at John Franke's answer to the question "What do we mean by 'emerging?'" (source is mentioned below), where he says that "missional" necessarily implies "emerging," which would further imply that Tim Keller's paper on "missional" is foundational for BTS's vision of being the seminary of choice for the emerging church.  But this is what Tim Keller said about the ECM on September 29, 2006, at the Desiring God National Conference, during "A Conversation With the Pastors " (audio file, starting at about 26 and a half minutes):

The emerging church is moving away from that [historic Christian] orthodoxy and they're – I do know that the liberal, mainline church has developed a kind of postliberal – you can see it at places like Yale and Duke – a postliberal reaction to the older liberalism. It puts more emphasis on the canon, it puts more emphasis on reading the text. The commentaries that come out of this movement don’t tear the book apart but actually try to listen for the text. They don’t believe in inerrancy, they have a very different understanding of truth, they would say, you know, if the interpretive community says this is truth, this is truth, and so on. So they’re moving away from the mainline, older liberalism. It’s less strident in some ways, and I think this group [the emerging church] is a kind of postconservativism, it’s actually coming out in the very same spot. It’s moving away from evangelical orthodoxy and it has a lot in common with the postliberals. In fact the only difference between the postconservatives and the postliberals is what they used to be. The postliberals used to be in mainline, the postconservatives used to be in evangelical churches, and they – they’re coming together. Whether that is going to be a cohesive movement, I doubt. Because I think they’re going to have trouble, they don’t have institutions, and I do think you need institutions.

At the same conference session John Piper was asked "John, you met recently with Tony Jones, who’s the national coordinator for Emergent, and Doug Pagitt, who’s also involved in the leadership of Emergent. Without breaking any confidences, is there anything you can tell us about that meeting, or anything that would be helpful about your time together with them, and how did it come about?"  Piper responded as follows:

(Same audio source, starting at about 18:25). 

Piper's observations about having a conversation with EV leadership are in rather stark contrast to those of BTS's John Franke, who says the following on BTS's web site:

I love Emergent the movement. I’m part of Emergent Village. I’m on the coordinating group, I represent Emergent, last week I was at two of their cohorts. I think it’s a great conversation. I think it is the conversation for our times.

("What do we mean by 'Emerging'?"

Also make sure you don't miss Brett Kunkle’s paper given at the Evangelical Theological Society convention in DC November 2006.

For an informative audio discussion of a Generous Orthodoxy listen to Richard Mayhue's talk onthe emerging church (though I think the criticisms are a bit excessive at times).

In a "Pastors’ and Theologians’ Forum on the Emerging Church," Don Carson, Mark Driscoll, Michael Horton, Mike McKinley, Daniel Montgomery, Brent Thomas, Carl Trueman, and Jonathan Leeman discuss the future of the emerging church movement.

D. A. Carson gives an introduction to the ECM in an article "Faith a la Carte?" in Modern Reformation, July / August 2005, adapted from his book Becoming Conversant With the Emerging Church (Zondervan, 2005).

Finally, Justin Taylor has written a nice "Emerging Church Primer".

 There are about 100+ links to articles etc. criticizing the emerging church movement at Monergism.