Quizzes

You scored as Roman Catholic. You are Roman Catholic. Church tradition and ecclesial authority are hugely important, and the most important part of worship for you is mass. As the Mother of God, Mary is important in your theology, and as the communion of saints includes the living and the dead, you can also ask the saints to intercede for you. Roman Catholic 71% Neo orthodox 68% Emergent/Postmodern 61% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 54% Classical Liberal 39% Charismatic/Pentecostal 36% Modern Liberal 25% Reformed Evangelical 7% Fundamentalist 4% What's your theological worldview? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as J?Moltmann. The problem of evil is central to your thought, and only a crucified God can show that God is not indifferent to human suffering. Christian discipleship means identifying with suffering but also anticipating the new creation of all things that God will bring about. J?Moltmann 73% John Calvin 60% Karl Barth 60% Anselm 53% Friedrich Schleiermacher 47% Paul Tillich 40% Martin Luther 33% Jonathan Edwards 33% Charles Finney 27% Augustine 27% Which theologian are you? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Chalcedon compliant. You are Chalcedon compliant. Congratulations, you're not a heretic. You believe that Jesus is truly God and truly man and like us in every respect, apart from sin. Officially approved in 451. Chalcedon compliant 92% Pelagianism 67% Modalism 33% Monophysitism 33% Donatism 25% Adoptionist 25% Socinianism 17% Apollanarian 17% Monarchianism 17% Gnosticism 8% Nestorianism 8% Albigensianism 0% Arianism 0% Docetism 0% Are you a heretic? created with QuizFarm.com

The question is...how can I be Roman Catholic if I'm Jurgen Moltmann? I suspect if von Balthasar were in the list I might have scored differently...

On Love

Some thoughts On Love by Alain de Botton (commentary forthcoming):

"There is the old joke made by the Marx who laughed about not deigning to belong to any club that would accept him as a member, a truth as appropriate in love as it is in club membership. We laugh at the Marxist position because of its absurd contradictions: How is it possible that I should wish to belong to a club and then lose that wish as soon as it comes true? How was it that I might have wished Chloe to love me, but be irritated by her when she did so?

"Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and our weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and the noble. But if the loved one loves us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe--but how can we continue to believe in the beloved now that they believe in us?" (45-46)

"Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced." (45)

What I did...

yesterday:




















and today: