Francis Schaeffer had Wallis’ type pegged forty years ago. He noted how the liberal and neo-orthodox tried to dress up pagan and humanist philosophy with Chrisitan words and symbols that actually had no meaning at all when one attempted to discern what was being said. Literally, wolves in sheep’s clothing. Willis is the classic example of this. You rarely hear emergents offer proof texts for what they are preaching. When they do it’s always a single verse stripped of all context - usually meaning the exact opposite of what it’s offered to prove. For example, Jesus never preached a collective ethic, his emphasis was always on the individual heart. He knew that collective institutions, ruled by wicked human hearts, could never accomplish anything for his kingdom. For man to progress he much change individually, one heart at a time. This was Jesus’ mission. The one time Jesus addressed politics was when he gave a major dressing down to the politicians of the time - the pharisees. (”Woe to you pharasees.....”)
Exaclty!
Jesus is an Absolute Monarch, *NOT* the chairman of a collectivist politburo.
The Monarchy of Christ is diametrically opposite the ostensible “egalitarianism” of collectivism.