Here are some excerpts from quotes from the back of the dustcover of a book called “Saving Jesus from the Church” by one Robin R. Meyers

“…The invitation to follow Jesus instead of worshiping Christ could not come at a more important time, or be issues be a more credible source….”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

“With crisply prophetic joy, Meyers calls seekers and believers alike to leave belief about Christ behind in favor of becoming imitators of Jesus. We can save Jesus from teh church…”
Diana Butler Bass

And a quote from the book itself.

Jesus is the pre-Easter man, or what biblical scholars have long searched to uncover: the “historical Jesus”. Christ is the post-Easter deity that had fully arrived by the time John’s gospel was written, even though his evolution from Jewish mystic to supernatural Savior was already emerging in the synoptic gospels. For the remainder of the book, however, I will speak of “Jesus” when referring to the Jewish peasant from Galilee–from his birth through the writing of the synoptic gospels. I will use the exalted title “Christ” to refer to the preexistent divine Savior from John’s gospel forward to the writing of the creeds.
p. 16

Liberals are trying to divide ‘Jesus’ from ‘Christ’, saying Jesus was a man, a Jewish peasant, while Christ is some kind of early church construct (though they also say that much of what the Gospels record about Jesus was also made up by the early chruch).

There emphasis is this–to stop worshiping Jesus and to follow Christ (even if Christ is merely a construct and Jesus is a real man we can know nothing about).

And, not surprising, it looks like emergent is diving right in.