On The Trail Of NT Wrong: This One Goes Up To 11

On The Trail Of NT Wrong: This One Goes Up To 11 December 6, 2008

Jim West has declared the quest finished. Albert Schweitzer has also chimed in:

The study of the Life of NT Wrong has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Wrong, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Blogger and Bishop. It loosed the bands by which He had been riveted for centuries to the stony rocks of minimalist doctrine, and rejoiced to see life and movement coming into the figure once more, and the historical Wrong advancing, as it seemed, to meet it. But He does not stay; He passes by our blog and returns to His own. What surprised and dismayed the blogging of the last forty minutes was that, despite all forced and arbitrary interpretations, it could not keep Him in our blog, but had to let Him go. He returned to His own blog, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position. [Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical NT Wrong]

The truth is that each of us has indeed found in NT Wrong what we’ve been looking for. We have looked down the well and seen our own reflection.

Perhaps the question that it is most important to ask is: Who do you say that NT Wrong is? (Mark 8:29, paraphrased)

And so I will leave this thread open for you to post your conclusions and creeds, your beliefs and blog links, about NT Wrong. And I’ll conclude with my own statement, not about the blogger of history, but of the Wrong of faith:

I believe in one Wrong, the blogger sarcastic,
purveyor of witticisms and information
Who was begotten, not made,
of one substance with the Guild of Biblical Minimalists.
Together with them and Jim West he is read and enjoyed.
He was born of someone, somewhere
for our amusement and illumination he became blog.
I believe in the communion of bibliobloggers,
and the life of the Biblical Studies Carnival to come.
Amen

Who do you say that NT Wrong is?


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