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Alien
August 10th 2005, 07:27 PM
JP ... in one of your 'toons you show a row of "fundies", one of whom is NT Wright. I would not have considered him a fundie by any description; did you really mean that or was it part of the joke?

(I've read The Challenge of Jesus and What Saint Paul Really Said and I'm starting on The New Testament and the People of God so I wouldn't call myself an expert on him, but what I've read so far doesn't seem very "fundie".)
Xavier
August 10th 2005, 07:32 PM
Wasn't the idea to show a spectrum of "Fundie"... Starting on the far left with Wright and moving right.

Granted, I agree that the step from Wright to Falwell is a big one.
Alien
August 10th 2005, 07:37 PM
Wasn't the idea to show a spectrum of "Fundie"... Starting on the far left with Wright and moving right.

Granted, I agree that the step from Wright to Falwell is a big one.

Could be, I certainly considered that as a possibility. Is Wright a fundie at all though? Let's see what Mr Holding says.
potato sundae
August 10th 2005, 07:56 PM
No, he's not fundie. He's orthodox and Anglican, though.
Amazing Rando
August 10th 2005, 08:27 PM
Could be, I certainly considered that as a possibility. Is Wright a fundie at all though? Let's see what Mr Holding says.

If believing that Jesus was actually the Messiah and that he rose from the dead makes one a fundy, then I suppose he's a fundy. :wink:
Jaltus
August 10th 2005, 11:30 PM
N. T. Wright is an orthodox Christian who would be leftish for US conservatives, but in terms of Christianity in general, he tends to be slightly right of center, and in academic circles he is midde way between far right and center.

Does that answer the question?
jpholding
August 11th 2005, 01:59 PM
JP ... in one of your 'toons you show a row of "fundies", one of whom is NT Wright. I would not have considered him a fundie by any description; did you really mean that or was it part of the joke?


Xavier is right. It was meant to show a rough spectrum. That's obviously harder to do when you have room for only three people (having to include Dan at the end). If I had more space I suppose I'd have put 1-2 more between Wright and Falwell.
Piebald
August 11th 2005, 02:14 PM
I have to say that is a darn good picture of Wright. It is unmistakably him. You should make comics where he goes on space adventures.. that would be awesome... The real Wright does have a lot of experience dealing with the Borg (, Marcus)
Captain Ochre
August 11th 2005, 02:44 PM
I have to say that is a darn good picture of Wright. It is unmistakably him. You should make comics where he goes on space adventures.. that would be awesome... The real Wright does have a lot of experience dealing with the Borg (, Marcus)

:ahem:/:lol:
jpholding
August 11th 2005, 03:30 PM
I have to say that is a darn good picture of Wright. It is unmistakably him. You should make comics where he goes on space adventures.. that would be awesome... The real Wright does have a lot of experience dealing with the Borg (, Marcus)

Oh heck, you just HAD to say that...now I'm getting ideas. After the series I'm working on now is done, OK?

I wonder what Wright'd think of being made into a toon anyway. I gather he has a sense of humour (Brit spelling) and might appreciate it.
Piebald
August 11th 2005, 03:33 PM
He could ride on the second volume of "Jesus and the Victory of God" through space, like the silver surfer...

The Silver Surfering Servant
Xavier
August 11th 2005, 03:33 PM
Oh heck, you just HAD to say that...now I'm getting ideas. After the series I'm working on now is done, OK?

I wonder what Wright'd think of being made into a toon anyway. I gather he has a sense of humour (Brit spelling) and might appreciate it.
The only word of caution I would give is that Wirght is still very good friends with Borg, so the parody might need to be muted in some fashion.
Jaltus
August 11th 2005, 03:49 PM
If he needs any magical power, he could pull his elf helper John Dominic Crossan out of his pocket.
jpholding
August 11th 2005, 04:17 PM
He could ride on the second volume of "Jesus and the Victory of God" through space, like the silver surfer...

The Silver Surfering Servant

Oh good grief. That's worse than what's been running through my mind to put on a T-shirt today...I ought to punish you by posting it....
Alien
August 11th 2005, 05:28 PM
Xavier is right. It was meant to show a rough spectrum. That's obviously harder to do when you have room for only three people (having to include Dan at the end). If I had more space I suppose I'd have put 1-2 more between Wright and Falwell.

OK, thanks.

N. T. Wright is an orthodox Christian who would be leftish for US conservatives, but in terms of Christianity in general, he tends to be slightly right of center, and in academic circles he is midde way between far right and center.

Does that answer the question?

Very succinctly, thank you.

(And thanks to everyone else that offered an explanation.)
Amazing Rando
August 12th 2005, 08:37 PM
The only word of caution I would give is that Wirght is still very good friends with Borg, so the parody might need to be muted in some fashion.

I loved that book he and Borg wrote together offering their two differing views on Jesus.
sc_q_jayce
October 11th 2006, 05:42 AM
Oh heck, you just HAD to say that...now I'm getting ideas. After the series I'm working on now is done, OK?

I wonder what Wright'd think of being made into a toon anyway. I gather he has a sense of humour (Brit spelling) and might appreciate it.
I happened to stumble across these doodles of NT Wright and found them appropriate for a (dead) thread such as this.

http://worldofsven.co.uk/theology/postentry_176.php?w=theology_and_biblical_studies