Quizzes and Train of Thought
You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan. You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God's grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavly by John Wesley and the Methodists.
Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan
75%
Emergent/Postmodern
61%
Roman Catholic
54%
Neo orthodox
46%
Classical Liberal
43%
Reformed Evangelical
43%
Modern Liberal
32%
Fundamentalist
32%
Charismatic/Pentecostal
11%
What's your theological worldview?
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I took this quiz again because I was annoyed to see that I agree with Emergent/Postmodern ideas so much. The second time my results for it and Roman Catholicism were inverted, and I scored a little higher on everything else. But. The first was probably a fair assessment--as far as quizzes and initial responses go, so I left it.
Looking at this, it's interesting and a little alarming for me to realize the kinds of stereotypes I make and which theological worldviews I'd like to distance from myself as well as those I hold to be more valuable or legitimate. For instance, I shrink from words (in terms of theology) like "fundamental" and "charismatic" and "modern" as well as "evangelical" and "holiness" I have never really associated myself with Wesleyians; I've usually considered Methodists to be too liberal and "wishy-washy," avoiding truths that seem too harsh or unappealing and, in so doing, embracing dubious attitudes and behaviors. Or I think of George Whitefield and D. L. Moody and spiritual revival and a frightening dependence on emotions. When I think of fundamentalists, I think staunch Southern Baptists who are over-the-top rigid with their ideas of morality, care little to develop an intellectual perspective on faith and the gospel, and are embarrassing in their means of evangelism. The Emmergent Church seems too much like an arrogant freshman at college undergoing a revelation that she can actually think on her own, exploring and elevating the significance of every idea that isn't her parents', and ultimately putting too much faith in her own individual experience. Most appealing to me have long been Roman Catholic and Reformed Evangelical churches. I am drawn by the beauty of tradition and structure of the former and the intelligence and confidence of the latter. Even so, my own Protestant "tradition" keeps me from relating to certain dogma in the Catholic Church and my understanding of love and mercy prevents me from subscribing to certain Calvinist doctrines.
As I review these thoughts, I am concerned that--and this probably reveals my Postmodern sympathies--I am, in a way, among those divisive people that destroy the reputation of the Church (not as an institution, but as the greater body of Christ) and the legitimacy of the gospel by bickering over trivialities and slandering everyone who disagrees with them. At the same time, however, I do really believe errors exist among the many "facets" of the Church and hope they will be corrected. I really do believe certain universal theological truths have been revealed and should be acknowledged by the Church as a whole. Ugh. It is utterly ridiculous and pompous of me to refuse to be a part of a church just because they all seem to have their weaknesses and just because I can't decide which one seems "rightest." (Although, I don't think that's really what's keeping me out of church at the moment...) So maybe community is more important than theology... ...What a ridiculous thing to say! I don't believe that at all. But community is vital, nevertheless...
...Okay, now I'm reminded of Johnson's Rasselas. Oh, how I am like him in so many ways! Sometimes thinking is a vice, I think. (Viciously?) Sometimes I need to just act. The will to act! Ughgugug. It forever eludes me! Lazy, scaredy-cat me.