Might as well state the obvious.
Critiques of N. T. Wright in Evangelical Reformed circles are not critiques of the bishop of Durham. They are attacks on fellow pastors in good standing as “aberrant” “miscreants.” They take place on email lists where membership is regularly purged so as to weed out those that might disagree and forge (I do mean forge) a consensus, or on church websites against pastors who never find out until they ego-surf for themselves. No charges or ever filed; no direct interaction ever takes place. One finds out months, perhaps a year later that cds of lectures one never knew about have been circulating ascribing to you positions that you abominate.
This is the world we live in right now. Criticisms of N. T. Wright are invariably transitive, besmirching someone besides the defender of the resurrection and the deity of the historical Jesus. Appreciation for him has nothing to do with why one would try to occasionally deal with the flood of misinformation about Wright. It is pure self-defense in an uncivil war.
This sounds a bit extreme. You then are saying that absolutely _no one_ has any valid critiques of N.T. Wright? Personally, the majority of critiques I have read do not ridicule what N.T. Wright has done that is good, such as defend the resurrection of Jesus and the deity of Christ (although some would dispute this). I do not find myself desribed by your ranting in any way whatsoever, as I have done my critique of his his work (and am still working on it). It does no one any good to state a position this extreme. You will not convince anyone of your position by pasting critics of N.T. Wright in this way.
The word extreme is certainly appropriate, but it does not apply to me. I never said nor implied that “no one has any valid critiques of N. T. Wright.”
I took the post to be about how many critiques have been carried out in terms of wider polemics, process, and politics rather than the content of some of those critiques, which at times may be valid enough. On the whole I’ve been pretty disgusted by the fairly evident kinds of shenanigans that Mark describes.