Quiz Me Today

Toni at Ancient Mariner has made an interesting comparision of his scores on the Theological Worldview test. I’m pretty skeptical about these sorts of tests and the attention bloggers have given to them (especially last summer!). Not all tests are bad, but they are no substitute for deep reflection.

However, I was taken aback this morning by how well this test did in describing my theology. The test ranked me asthis test scored me as Neo Orthodox, with Emergent/Postmodern and Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan in a clear tie for second place. That’s actually a pretty solid guesstimate for me. I am partial to both Barth and the neo-O folks like Reinhold Niebuhr, I’m clearly postmodern and as far as I’m still Evangelical, I’m Evangelical in a Weslyian/Armian/General sense.

“You scored as Neo orthodox. You are neo-orthodox. You reject the human-centredness and scepticism of liberal theology, but neither do you go to the other extreme and make the Bible the central issue for faith. You believe that Christ is God’s most important revelation to humanity, and the Trinity is hugely important in your theology. The Bible is also important because it points us to the revelation of Christ. You are influenced by Karl Barth and P T Forsyth.”

At the other end of the spectrum, my bottom three by a long way were Classical Liberal, Charismatic/Pentecostal and Fundamentalist. Again pretty spot on. I see a thread that connects these three that has to do with priveledging human reason and experience (as a by-product of both high modernism and localism). It’s a hard connection to make, but this test (maybe through blind luck) managed to highlight it.

[tags] Quizzes, Theology, Theological Method [/tags]