Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Guess the Author

'[D]ogmatics as such does not ask what the apostles and prophets said but what we must say on the basis of the apostles and prophets'

Not hard, this one. So here is the idea: the first to get it wrong gets picked on by the rest of us for a week or two.

24 Comments:

At 8/05/2008 2:46 PM, Anonymous Nick Norelli said...

Well, I'm still sitting in the upright position so it couldn't have been Benny Hinn. I'm going to go with Joel Osteen. :^P

 
At 8/05/2008 3:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Karl Barth.

 
At 8/05/2008 3:54 PM, Anonymous matthew r malcolm said...

The Barth idea seems attractive, but in a surprise move, I'm going to go for Benny Osteen

 
At 8/05/2008 5:04 PM, Anonymous Scott Grace said...

Jesus.

 
At 8/05/2008 5:14 PM, Anonymous Jason Goroncy said...

Barth's our man! And my guess is somewhere early on in CD I/1.

 
At 8/05/2008 5:30 PM, Anonymous carlsweatman said...

Dr. Seuss' first roommate at Dartmouth College.

 
At 8/05/2008 6:56 PM, Anonymous J. B. Hood said...

No, in order for this to be Benny Hinn, it would have had to have been:
"Apostolic and prophetic hairstyling as such does not ask how the apostles and prophets wore their hair, but how we must wear our hair on the basis of the apostles and prophets."

Also insert clothing, air transport, lodging...

 
At 8/05/2008 7:37 PM, Anonymous jon henry said...

My first inclination was, like most of you, Barth. Then I remembered that I'd actually said something similar a few years ago. Also, Barth wrote only in German. So I guess the right answer is: me.

 
At 8/05/2008 9:41 PM, Anonymous Chris Donato said...

Barth, or Yoder, or an infinite amount of monkeys typing furiously for infinity...

 
At 8/05/2008 10:02 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

barth is appealing, and because you said it was easy that'll be my guess. but could it be john webster?

 
At 8/05/2008 10:04 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

barth

 
At 8/05/2008 10:44 PM, Anonymous Owen said...

Now be honest, how many people looked up the quote on google?

 
At 8/06/2008 12:45 AM, Anonymous One of Freedom said...

Barth is what I was thinking too, but I was too afraid of being ridiculed to post my guess.

 
At 8/06/2008 1:09 AM, Anonymous X-Cathedra said...

In my ignorance, I will resort to the grade-school religion class tactic:

"God loves me"

Which can never be marked as a wrong answer.


Pax Christi,

 
At 8/06/2008 4:32 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

i'll be honest. i figured barth instantly, but it almost seemed too easy.... so i googled it.

 
At 8/06/2008 5:15 AM, Anonymous carlsweatman said...

Chris Donato,

The furiously typing monkeys sound very Douglas Adams(ish). If so, nice touch. :-)

 
At 8/06/2008 5:36 AM, Anonymous Weekend Fisher said...

Did you say Barth or Yoda? The style isn't Yoda's at all. Yoda's would be more like: "What the prophets said, ask not. What the apostles said, ask not." and so forth.

 
At 8/06/2008 6:06 AM, Anonymous Cb said...

Benny Hinn? I thought it was Benny Hill.

 
At 8/06/2008 10:45 AM, Anonymous steph said...

Homer Simpson. If anyone else said it before him they plagiarised Homer's preexistent self.

 
At 8/06/2008 2:43 PM, Anonymous Flint Cowboy said...

I keep hearing about this great Barth CD. Can I just download it to my Ipod?

 
At 8/06/2008 6:57 PM, Anonymous Davis said...

George W. Bush?

 
At 8/08/2008 1:17 PM, Anonymous John C. Poirier said...

It was Barth.

The great mystery is: How did a man who wrote that line arrive at a theology so utterly foreign to the prophets and apostles?

 
At 8/09/2008 12:09 AM, Anonymous Brian Mooney said...

It's got to be Barth - but with a twist: it is Barth as quoted by Hans Kung in his first book, Justification.

 
At 8/10/2008 11:27 PM, Anonymous Chris Tilling said...

Well you are a clever bunch, especially Jason. It was Barth, and it was also "somewhere early on in CD I/1"!! I'm a little bit impressed.

Nick gets picked on!

 

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