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  1. J. K. Gayle said

    October 29, 2008 at 10:20 am

    Naming and classifying! Aristotle is very pleased, and so are the pigeons in their holes. (By that, of course, he can only mean “A member of the family Columbidae,” which also includes the doves; although some of the rest of us intend, by it, things altogether different.)

    J. K. Gayle
    Aristotle’s Feminist Subject
    http://speakeristic.blogspot.com

    —-

    PS Why not let The Voice of Stefan speak?
    Esteban Vázquez
    http://voxstefani.blogspot.com/

  2. ntwrong said

    October 29, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    Oh – all you Aristotelians think alike – essentially.

    My guilty conscience was thinking I was being very nineteenth century in all this ordering.

    Esteban, huh? Thank you for telling me. (We’ll see if there’s a place to slot him in.)

  3. Rob Reid said

    October 30, 2008 at 4:25 am

    Rob G. Reid
    Jesus and Empire: A Postcolonial Perspective
    http://robertgreid.blogspot.com

  4. ntwrong said

    October 30, 2008 at 4:45 am

    Rob – and I read your blog! I’m adding you now.

    BTW, your blog is spelt: http://robgreid.blogspot.com/

  5. Jim said

    October 30, 2008 at 10:24 am

    good job.

  6. Phil H. said

    October 30, 2008 at 11:56 am

    Glad I came in with a “liberal”. Thanks for doing the list.

  7. Bob MacDonald said

    October 30, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    Very Conservative eh? On some issues, but not on others. While I engage with the crucifixion as the central singularity of space-time, I am more than pragmatic on the acceptance of homosexuality where most conservatives are likely to want to conserve ancient and modern cultural bias.

    My ‘personal take’ on the faith is at http://stenagmois.blogspot.com.

    Suzanne McCarthy and her posts on Bookshelf and BBB is similarly more radical than conservative. See http://powerscourt.blogspot.com/

    BTW it’s Mac for me and Mc for Suzanne

    Thanks for the work

  8. agathos said

    October 30, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    This is a very good list. Though I have to admit that it has been so long since someone has called me “conservative” I found it a little shocking.

    Most of the persons at my school view me as being the result of an unholy union between belial and satan…

  9. Brian said

    October 30, 2008 at 4:35 pm

    Thanks for this list. I loaded up my googlereader with these!

  10. Jim said

    October 30, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    that’s funny scott. when i was in seminary (doing the ThM) I was a fellow- which meant i filled in for my prof when he was gone. some of the guys told my wife that she was going to hell because she was married to me.

    those crazy baptists….

  11. John Hobbins said

    October 30, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    It pleases me no end to be classed as “very conservative” along with, for example, Esteban Vázquez , David Ker, Peter Head, Mike Holmes, P. J. Williams, Bob MacDonald, Michael Barber, Brad Pitre, Wayne Leman, Bill Heroman, ElShaddai Edwards, Randall Buth, Dave Beldman, Kevin Edgecomb, Rick Brannan, Peter Enns, Ben Witherington, Michael Bird, and Rich Rhodes.

    What great company! A vast right-wing evangelical, Orthodox, Anglican, and Roman Catholic conspiracy!

    I will also be pleased to point out to friends like Art Boulet, Mike Heiser, Ben Byerly, Calvin Park, Charles Halton. Michael Halcomb, Pete Bekins, Jim Spinti, and Tim Bulkeley that their online persona is not as conservative as mine.

    Out-conservatived by a Waldensian / United Methodist. The shame! The shame!

  12. Christopher Smith said

    October 30, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    Nice list. Thanks.

  13. Wayne Leman said

    October 30, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    Better Bibles Blog moved to a new address yesterday:

    http://betterbibles.com

    I find the classification of all the bloggers on BBB as “very conservative” to be interesting. I think it would be better to ask each of us how conservative we are. I doubt that each would consider themself “very conservative.”

    But labels are rather fun, aren’t they?

    Except when they over-simplify, and sometimes damage.

    Many of us are more complicated in our theology or ideology views than to just be placed at a single position on a conservative to liberal continuum. I suspect that we need multiple dimensions, perhaps even an n-dimensioned array where positions are noted for each individual for several important factors, such as view of inspiration, atonement position, role of the Bible in relation to the Church, creationism vs. evolution (with all its various flavors), etc. etc.

  14. Michael Barber said

    October 30, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    Very conservative: Bird, Bock, Hobbins, McKnight, Pitre, Willitts, Witherington, Pitre and Barber! I’m honored to be in such esteemed company.

    Who’d of thunk it? Baptists, Methodists, emerging church folk–and Catholics. “And the times they are a-changing!”

  15. John Barry said

    October 30, 2008 at 9:18 pm

    N.T. Wrong,

    I am decently new to the blogging world, but have created quite a controversy on my fairly scholastic blog “The Infinite in Everything” — http://www.conversantlife.com/johnbarry

    Where do I land on the spectrum? Please let me know if you add me, I am anxious to find out.

    –John Barry

  16. Judy Redman said

    October 31, 2008 at 11:30 am

    This is very interesting, NT. Especially since it confirms my perception as I surfed that the majority of people who biblio(ish)blog fit closer to the conservative end of the theological spectrum. (I say “biblio(ish)blog” because quite a number of the people you list, including me, do not fit the Jim West definition of bibliobloggers. 🙂

    This is at odds with the perception of many members of my denomination that the majority of theologically trained people in the church, especially academics, are evil liberals who are trying to take the church to hell in a handbasket. I wonder if there really are so few people from the more liberal end of the spectrum, or whether it’s just that they don’t blog?

  17. ntwrong said

    October 31, 2008 at 11:41 am

    Judy – thanks for your comments. I had some very similar conclusions when I looked at the ‘snapshot’ of biblio(ish)bloggers. I would’ve posted on it already, but I’ve become bogged down with reading conservative blogs to determine if they’re ‘fairly conservative’ or ‘very conservative’. This seems to be a big thing for them. What have I got myself into?

    You’re right – there’s a vast difference between the perception of the average woman in the pew and reality. The field is still well dominated by conservatives.

    A similar perception-reality parallax happens with the media. The media is (obviously) controlled by right-of-centre rich free-marketeers, and editors know they’re in the Business of selling advertisements by squeezing stories around them. The whole set-up is conservative and right-of-centre (politically, this time). And yet, you get this pig-ignorant caricature of a ‘liberal’ media from those who think people who use more than two syllables per word must be left wing. As if.

  18. jonswales said

    October 31, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    Hi can u add me to your list http://www.ordinand.wordpress.com I’m interested to see what catergory I fit into

  19. Stephen Douglas said

    October 31, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    Try me: I have a feeling I know where I’ll end up. 🙂

    I’m Stephen Douglas, and my blog is Undeception at http://undeception.com.

  20. Mike Heiser said

    October 31, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    An interesting list. As with all such lists, there are incongruities (Mark “there is no Q” Goodacre at NT Gateway = “Liberal” ?; Peter “I love the OT’s paganized cosmology” Enns = Very conservative – too bad Westminster booted him!; Darrel Bock = “fairly” conservative – a pre-trib dispensationalist?). Not even close on these. Then there’s me. I’m not classified correctly according to your definitions (but I realize they have to be brief and simplistic). I’m not going to say where I should be because I enjoy being hard to classify. But here’s a hint that goes to the weakness of the list, and a weakness to all such labeling attempts. People (especially scholars) mistakenly assume that if one uses critical methods one cannot use them to re-articulate traditional (conservative) theological positions – basically because they lack the imagination or experience or creativity to do so.

  21. ntwrong said

    October 31, 2008 at 7:02 pm

    Yeah, Mike – Goodacre and Bock need pulling back in the conservative direction. With Enns, it’s just the case that everybody else at Westminster is ‘Ultra Conservative’.

    And you – I admit I was a little stumped. I don’t think I’m wrong though — although the definition might not quite fit, I don’t know that there’s a better one.

    Congratulations by the way…

  22. ntwrong said

    October 31, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    Stephen – fairly conservative.

  23. Steve said

    November 1, 2008 at 12:13 am

    Thanks. 🙂

  24. ochesnut said

    November 1, 2008 at 3:53 am

    don’t know if you consider archaeology a biblioblog, but here is my blog:

    http://ochesnut.wordpress.com/

  25. bryan said

    November 1, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    oh rate me, rate me, i must know what I am?

    http://www.metalepsis.blogspot.com

  26. J. K. Gayle said

    November 1, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    what Wayne said (on the damnaging oversimplifications, my punny sp. intended)

    what Judy asked (abt whether all the voices are speaking up or are being heard)

  27. Luiz da Rosa said

    November 1, 2008 at 5:51 pm

    Our site has news in Portuguese about Biblical World and provides answers to questions sent by our visitants. We have also a section with articles about the Bible and the Bible “Almeida” OnLine. Is it possible to include it on your list? Thanks.

  28. ntwrong said

    November 1, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    Luiz – I have seen your site, thank you, but I didn’t think it was a ‘blog’ as such but a News and Question-and-Answer site. But please convince me otherwise.

  29. ntwrong said

    November 1, 2008 at 6:22 pm

    Bryan – start posting again. 😉

  30. J.C Baker said

    November 1, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    Wrong, You are wrong. You obviously have not read much of my blog since you have classified me as very conservative. Anyone who agrees with Marcus Borg and John Spong much of the time is no conservative. I would be fit in your very liberal category.

  31. J.C Baker said

    November 1, 2008 at 11:42 pm

    Sorry, I clearly should have read your blog more carefully before posting my comment. According to your typology, I guess I would be a conservative liberal, though I think that category makes little sense. In your list, I would fit in the liberal category. Thanks for doing the list.

  32. Eric said

    November 2, 2008 at 3:23 am

    Thanks for the mention. I’m a little curious why you think I’m “very conservative”. I will admit that I am conservative, but I know enough conservatives who are…quite uncomfortable with some of my thinking offline. Maybe I just don’t spill the beans enough online 🙂

  33. danielandtonya said

    November 2, 2008 at 3:47 am

    NT Wrong,

    Since we’re on this list, I guess you’ve seen the site. Check back for a response to your classifications and top 50 list. Thanks for the inclusion.

    danielandtonya

  34. danielandtonya said

    November 2, 2008 at 4:30 am

    You should print up shirts for all the bloggers with their conservative-liberal classification on the front.

  35. ntwrong said

    November 2, 2008 at 5:30 am

    Eric – In fact, I had already changed you to fairly conservative from my initial categorization. I just hadn’t updated this page. I re-categorized a number of blogs after I arrived at some loose definitions, your included.

  36. Jake Belder said

    November 2, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    I’d be interested in having my blog added to your spectrum, and I wonder what category you’d place me in. http://www.jakebelder.com

    Thanks.

  37. Eric said

    November 2, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    Well thanks for taking the time to look at my blog and sending others that way as well. Always appreciated.

  38. J.C. Baker said

    November 2, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    Pleas change my label to liberal. I am not conservative in any sense of the word.

  39. ntwrong said

    November 2, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    JC – no, you’re not. A complete cock-up on my part there. I think you were meant to be ‘conservative liberal’, but I’ve put you in the ‘liberal’ category as requested.

  40. danielandtonya said

    November 3, 2008 at 12:35 am

    A critique of your criteria for liberal-conservative labeling is posted at hebrewandgreekreader.wordpress.com
    I hope its helpful.

  41. BenjaminL said

    November 3, 2008 at 3:20 am

    Where does “Early Christianity” (McKnight et al.) fit on the 1-5 scale – looks like a typo…

  42. Ben said

    November 3, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Thanks for your work. Always interesting to see others’ opinions. However, I would place myself in the ‘fairly conservative’ camp. I work for NT Wright, so hopefully that’s enough evidence.

  43. JC said

    November 5, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    Thanks NT. I wondered how I made it to the very conservative list!

  44. J. R. Daniel Kirk said

    November 5, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    I approve of my label under your classification system. Carry on.

  45. Manuel said

    November 8, 2008 at 5:38 am

    Gracias NT Wrong… aunque en mi biblioteca tengo a Crossan, Bultmann, Pagels, Ehrman, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzche, Habermas, Gadamer, etc. Sin embargo, estoy de acuerdo con lo de “Very conservative”, me agrada la compañía de los que están allí, ;).

  46. Mike Stover said

    November 15, 2008 at 8:23 pm

    Hi NT. Interesting list. I don’t blog but if I did I would esteem the coveted ‘very conservative’ tag. If you devote your life to something you might as well jump in with both feet! Please look out for me if I start blogging in the future.

    p.s. call it a hunch but are you a big Robbo fan – of BBC sport fame?

  47. David Ker said

    November 19, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    Cool. My pastor will be relieved that I haven’t turned completely apostate.

  48. Brian Kibuuka said

    November 21, 2008 at 1:23 am

    Thanks for the inclusion of my humble blog.
    But something worries me.
    My colleagues call me the “Liberal”…
    My students think I am a Conservative…
    In my opinion, I am a Liberal Conservative.
    Abraços errantes do Brasil, NT Wrong!

  49. Frank Emanuel said

    November 22, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    I’d love to see how you classify my blog.

    http://freedompastor.blogspot.com

    Frank Emanuel

  50. Tom Verenna said

    November 28, 2008 at 2:19 am

    Thanks for this and for including me. I would say “great work” but I have come to expect nothing less than ‘great’ from you, as it is.

    Warm regards,

    Tom

  51. Brian said

    December 1, 2008 at 2:27 am

    I wonder if you can let us know when you have added new blogs to your blog list. Thanks for the list.

  52. danielandtonya said

    December 1, 2008 at 5:40 am

    Yay, we’re red hot! Why the move from translation and linguistics to general?

  53. ntwrong said

    December 1, 2008 at 6:21 am

    Brian – I should do posts on additions and deletions. So far I’ve just being trying to make sure I’ve got them all.

    Daniel and Tonya – Um, it just seemed right.

  54. learnfrenchwiththebible said

    December 2, 2008 at 7:42 am

    You might consider adding “Alef and Omega: Thoughts on the Bible and Its Languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek” (Sharon Buth Alley, Gary Alley, Brian Schultz, Randall Buth).
    http://alefandomega.blogspot.com/

  55. ntwrong said

    December 2, 2008 at 6:47 pm

    I’ve seen http://alefandomega.blogspot.com/, but it seems to be dead or having a near death experience.

  56. Roger Mugs said

    December 7, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    get me in on this list… theologer.com

  57. Hoyt Roberson said

    December 14, 2008 at 4:49 am

    OK, I’ll bite……

    http://www.robersonblog.blogspot.com

    Let’s see where we fall.

  58. NT Wrong? said

    December 14, 2008 at 8:41 am

    Hoyt – it’s probably a homiletic/pastoral blog rather than a biblioblog. But ‘fairly conservative’.

  59. chioulaoshi said

    December 19, 2008 at 1:56 am

    Wow, you read Chinese? I’m impressed.

    http://chioulaoshi.blogspot.com/ (Traditional Chinese)
    http://chioulaoshi.wordpress.com/ (Simplified Chinese)

  60. Scripture Zealot said

    January 2, 2009 at 4:41 am

    Thanks for putting me on this list.

    I dropped off the top 50 this month. I’ll work on it, but with the other fine additions I don’t know how I will fare.
    Jeff

  61. Brian Small said

    January 5, 2009 at 5:34 am

    I have started a new biblioblog on Hebrews if you would like to put it on your list.

  62. NT Wrong said

    January 5, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    Thanks, Brian.

  63. Quixie said

    January 6, 2009 at 4:37 am

    I am not a professional academic in this field, but my posts are mostly refutations of bad apologetics and faulty (i.e. ‘wishful’) exegesis and my own ruminations on Christian origins.
    Though, I realize that I could never hope to rate in the top positions of your listing, it would nevertheless be cool to be included, if only as a counter-weight to the decidedly conservative bent of the list.

    Peace

    Ó

    Leo Quix

  64. NT Wrong said

    January 6, 2009 at 7:39 pm

    Quixie – I was thinking the same thing. You do seem to have a substantial number of posts on biblical studies. Academic positions aren’t required for a listing, only a scholarly approach to biblical studies. Although, saying that, there are a fair few on the list that have academic positions, but not a scholarly approach…

  65. Geoff Hudson said

    January 6, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    [comment moved to hobbyhorse comments post]

  66. Geoff Hudson said

    January 6, 2009 at 10:14 pm

    [comment moved to hobbyhorse comments post]

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