It’s 2am and I can’t sleep. And this is Leah, not Rhett. I had a three hour nap early this evening; I couldn’t keep my eyes open. Tomorrow I will be regretting that nap more even than I am now. I have been up surfing for awhile. It all started with reading the poem Tracy posted by Auden and now I have ended up taking a quiz to find out which theologian I am similar to. And these are my results. I suppose I should find out more about this guy. 
| Anselm | Â Â
|
93% | ||
| Martin Luther |
|
67% | ||
| Jürgen Moltmann |
|
60% | ||
| John Calvin |
|
53% | ||
| Jonathan Edwards |
|
53% | ||
| Karl Barth |
|
47% | ||
| Paul Tillich |
|
40% | ||
| Charles Finney |
|
40% | ||
| Augustine |
|
33% | ||
| Friedrich Schleiermacher |
|
27% |
Which theologian are you?
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Anselm… what did he do for anyone? Rob?
I started doing the quiz but it was using words that were too big for poor wittle whett.
I love the line in Auden’s poem: “Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives”.
Well, I’m Friedrich Schleiermacher, although I’m probably not really even him, as it was only by 27%.
Yeh, I couldn’t decide which to put at the top of the page. But I really liked Mad Ireland.
Two thoughts:
1. I can not, for the life of me, get this quiz to work. This is more disapointing, because A) rarely do I fill these sorts of things out and B) rarely to I actually find one I’d care about. Can I get a little help here?
2. Anselm of Cantebury (1033-1109, though I may have the dates wrong- don’t quote me) is supremely important, in fact more so than almost any theologian aside from Augustine. Anselm was the first to really solidify (though not originate) the notion of the propitiary nature of the Christ act. Essentially he said that God was an angry feudal lord (King) who’s honor had been offended and that the only way to appease this distempered and brooding Being was by sacrificing something. This is such a great example of how culture shapes religion. Sinners are like peasants, owing a debt to their lord which they cannot repay. God becomes a man to pay it for them (cost is death) and save them in the process. While this was only one of a pantheon of working understandings of salvation (consider things like deification as an alternative), it has become the dominant model (and the one most ballyhooed by the evangelical church).
As a side note, Spong has a lenthy diatribe about this in almost all his books. Take a gander for a more complex and fact filled interpretation.
Rob
“You scored as Paul Tillich.
Paul Tillich sought to express Christian truth in an existentialist way. Our primary problem is alienation from the ground of our being, so that our life is meaningless. Great for psychotherapy, but no longer very influential.”
Clearly this website has no idea what it’s talking about. That being said, I find it ironic that I happened to land on the man second only to God in my estimation.
Rob
Funny. (Can’t get the emoticons to work)
It seems I would like Jurgen Moltmann–I scored 100% with him. My backup is Paul Tillick. You can check it out at: http://blog.myspace.com/leifbaradoy
Paul Tillich here, and moderately happy about the whole thing. I think the selection of theologians from which the quiz draws is rather limited. But, I’m lovin’ up the existentialism, as usual.