Can you name a use for this cartoon featuring Tom Wright kapowing Marc Borg and Dom Crossan? Let me get the ball rolling:
1. Tom Wright's blogger Icon
2. The new cover for the Fortress edition of The Resurrection of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan and N.T. Wright in Dialogue.
3. A diagram explainig Tom Wright's rebuttal strategy for SBL in 2006.
I got the cartoon from Justin Junkins at Pisteuo.
Hmm, I wonder if I could insert a picture of Wright giving Bultmann an uppercut to the chin? Or maybe Tom slapping Richard Dawkins in the face with a big piece of Barramundi!
Interpretation: I think this drawing is a projection of someone's internalised hero myth, where a primeval (yet strangely postmodern) champion arises to fight and win the religious battle against a perceived enemy. Well, we all like to have heroes don't we!
To quote Bertolt Brect (Galileo):
"Unhappy a land with no Hero"
"Unhappy a land that needs a hero"
I think that sums it up.
Otherwise, I shall now observe a NT Wright moratorium for the next month!
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I'll own up - that's my drawing of N T Wright that I doodled while attending one of his Didsbury Lectures in October 2005.
I have a few more stashed away somewhere that I'll post on my blog in the next few days or so :)
Priceless.
I like option two the best.
I saw that cartoon on your blog Steven last Oct/Nov - I sent it to a friend of mine because we both belong to his fan club. (yeah right eh Mike) I hope you don't mind...
Steph - use the cartoons entirely at your discretion, they're in the public domain.
I might frame the originals and put them up for sale on E-bay for some quick cash though ;)
How about one of him ducking, evading and running away from certain people not associated with the Jesus Seminar? ;-)
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