Emergent thinking in Australia . . . Where is it?

Where is emergent in Australia?

Apart from some pretty interesting avenues of thought pursued by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, which I think at its basis isn't really emergentesque but more like new construction on a familiar foundation, I haven't heard of much in the old homeland.

I was pretty shocked to hear Mike Frost speak about the theme of exile remaining a key Biblical thread - and as a major metaphor as to how believers should think of themselves. I agree. I think after working with refugees, the idea of displacement or exile as Frost puts it, is a helpful way of understand the context in which we relate to culture. And BTW, with him, I resonate with the idea that the message IS the medium.

What equally shocked me though was the realisation that Forge appears to be more of a revamping of a pretty conservative ecclesiology than what I was prepared for. I suppose an easier way to restate that is that Forge seems to look back to identify the high point for Christian ecclesiology and that Emergent thinking doesn't believe such an era exists.

Only fools try to define something like a movement or conversation - and being no stranger to that, here goes:

From what I understand of the emergent conversation Christianity will work best wherever it finds itself in the world when it maintains with a loose grip an open, safe, humble, theologically strident, egalitarian, collaborative, questioning and contextualised community of faith. The last term indicating that it cannot and should not have a clonable form.

Using that as a really poor definition - I just don't hear many Australian voices speaking to that?