I am a fan of Dan Wallace's New Testament document research and I highly recommend books by Dan and Ed Komoszewki such as Reinventing Jesus and Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ. There is a co-author blog called Parchment and Pen from Dan and Ed and Michael Patton which I regularly read. I am going to be a guest on their podcast next month along with others such as Scot McKnight and Mark Driscoll.
Michael recently had a series of posts on the emerging church where he did he best to draw out some charts about varying viewpoints and included names in the mix. As soon as anyone draws charts and especially if they put names to things, it will stir up some heated conversation - which this certainly did by the amount of comments made. Various people weighed in on why they agree or disagree or felt names were not in the right places or if charts should even be attempted to describe things like this and if charts like this only causes unnecessary division of sorts.
You can read the original post here which had the above charts on it and the comments about it. It is important to not just look at these charts, but to read his thoughts behind it, and also the comments that people made to whether they agreed or not to it.
He had a follow up couple of posts Part 2 here and Part 3 here and Part 4 here (the second set of circles charts was helpful to understand what he was saying here in Part 4) and Part 5 here.
Michael posted about what he means on the chart by "Orthodox Christianity" in this post.
Scot McKnight weighed in on the charts on his blog here.
It is not easy to try and map something like this out on any chart, as all this is so complex and that is why reading the comments put in by people are important to read in addition to just looking at the charts here. But I found it quite fascinating reading the blog entries and the comments that people wrote about it from various perspectives.
