Quackpots

Alright, so that’s that. To recap: Patristic and Conciliar Christology is primarily exegetically driven biblical (OT & NT) Christology, and if it looks like a Nestorian, walks like a Nestorian, and quacks like a Nestorian, then it’s a duck.

http://rdtwot.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/some-comments-on-christology/

Problem with Nick’s duck test is that his own position quacks and waddles. For instance, Dale Tuggy thinks that all orthodox formulations of the Trinity are incoherent because they invariably pull in opposing directions. According to Tuggy, orthodox formulations of the Trinity either reduce to modalism or Tritheism. So Tuggy would administer the duck test Nick’s position and say, if it looks like a tritheist, waddles like a tritheist, and quacks like a tritheist, then it’s a tritheist. Conversely, if it looks like a modalist, waddles like a modalist, and quacks like a modalist, then it’s a modalist. And he’d administer the same duck test analysis to orthodox formulations of the hypostatic union, with the same results. According to Tuggy, Nick is a quackpot. Therefore, you can't simply judge a position by superficial appearances.