Are the Terms “Emerging” and “Emergent” Dead?

So that’s the least-clever blog title I’ve come up with yet, and perhaps that’s apros po for the subject matter: The supposed death of the terms “emerging” and “emergent” as per this article which cleverly, and very postmodernly(but wrongly) incorporates a reference to one Luca Brasi (Godfather) in its discussion: http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/archives/2008/09/rip_emerging_ch.html
There is precedent for this [...]