About two years back, I wrote a piece about the kinds of people which Emergent might cater to. After reading (yet another) harsh review of McLaren and Emergent, I think it'd be good to (do something very un-Emergent and) list out who the network/movement might NOT appeal to. Feel free to correct me when I say that you won't find much in Emergent to your liking if:

1. You honestly believe that the domain of Christian thinking primarily involves defending truth, "proving" the faith, providing evidence (of all kinds) for the historical cum logical truth of Christianity, showing the skeptics wrong, etc. i.e you believe that if a Christian thinker cannot provide answers, he's either a poor thinker or not a 'serious' Christian.

2. You do not value ambiguity and pluralism in theology i.e. you believe there is one, and only one, right conclusion in much of Christian theology and thought. Greater certainty denotes better progress.

3. You tend to emphasize the exclusivity of truth over its personal or narrative dimension

4. You emphasize actuality over possibility, 'what is' over 'what if', foundations of truth over freshness of perspectives, universal truth over personal story. You likely have no problem "giving up" all the latter elements as you view them as having lower 'value' in the faith.

5. Your focus is establishing the boundaries of the faith, who is IN and OUT of the people of God (and any form of ambiguity here is viewed as disastrous) and this is always on your mind as you read or engage any new conversation, proposal, idea, etc.

6. You cannot and will not allow any rethinking and reevaluation of orthodox doctrines; you are heavily suspicious of anything 'new' in theology, "doctrinal innovator" is NOT a tag you'd pin on yourself and, though you hope you won't have to make a choice, if push comes to shove you'll insist that orthodoxy is far FAR more important than orthopraxy.

7. You think that the word 'post-modernism' is generally a bad one (although you may give lip-service to some of its benefits) and you particularly feel the need to keep a cautious eye on what people call 'post-modern Christianity' (you will also not be caught dead promoting any kind of post-modernism within the church)

8. You would rather err theologically on the side of God's glory or truth than on His love i.e. given Position X which emphasizes God's love whilst throwing into doubt His glory and/or power, and Position Y which does the opposite, you would go for Position Y without hesitation.

9. You love theological/philosophical argument; criticism (the tool) is something you use 99% of the time. You may even be surprised that there are other cognitive approaches apart from just arguing against a position.