The last time I did a doctrinal quiz, I came out as Orthodox. At that point I bemoaned the fact that there was no Anglican option among the answers. This time, in another quiz (again, I found myself not liking some of the questions) there is neither an Anglican nor an Orthodox option. Nor am I entirely sure what the author(s) mean by neo-orthodox, which could cover a multitude of sins.
What’s your theological worldview?
You scored as a 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 86%
Neo orthodox 79%
Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 68%
Emergent/Postmodern 68%
Modern Liberal 39%
Classical Liberal 39%
Charismatic/Pentecostal 32%
Reformed Evangelical 7%
Fundamentalist 0%
Note to my detractors: I’m only 86% RC and not 100% anything but Anglican (although that wasn’t an option. Mind you, I guess one reason I got only 86% RC because I disagreed that the Pope was the head of the church! But more importantly I’m very proud of that “Fundamentalist 0%”. Sweet.
9 responses so far ↓
1 Justin Anthony Knapp // Dec 28, 2007 at 12:38 pm
You scored as a 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 [sic] by John Wesley and the Methodists.
Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan
79%
Emergent/Postmodern
79%
Neo orthodox
64%
Roman Catholic
57%
Charismatic/Pentecostal
50%
Modern Liberal
46%
Fundamentalist
39%
Classical Liberal
39%
Reformed Evangelical
18%
In case you’re wondering, I have no background in Methodism.
-JAK
2 Eddie // Dec 28, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Apparently I’m Emergent/Post Modern. But that’s probably just a construct of the quiz.
3 Nick Norelli // Dec 28, 2007 at 2:52 pm
I’ve always considered myself a Charismatic-Pentecostal but according to my results I’m Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan. I’m loathe to call myself an ‘evangelical’ as I feel it is a basically useless title given the vast diversity of what passes for ‘evangelical’ these days. But to my chagrin, I’m more fundamentalist (46%) than Charismatic-Pentecostal (43%) — go figure
I guess the lesson to be learned is that when in doubt we should always look to an internet quiz to find out who we are
4 Esteban Vázquez // Dec 28, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Oh, I remember this quiz! I turned out to be Neo-Orthodox, or some such amorphous rubbish. Then another time I turned out to be a Filioquist heretic of the Popish variety IN SPITE of still answering the Pope questions in the absolute negative (!). After these galling results I sworn off all online quizzing, but alas, that lasted all of two days, I think.
5 Peter Kirk // Dec 28, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Eddie, I’m also Emergent/Postmodern. But I won’t try to explain it away, I’m proud of it.
Nick, I also might have expected to come out as Charismatic/Pentecostal, but for that I would probably have had to answer that speaking in tongues is the most important part of my faith - which it isn’t for me or for most current charismatics.
6 JohnFH // Dec 28, 2007 at 11:52 pm
I don’t plan to take the test. For one thing, I don’t want to be shown to be a non-fundamentalist after arguing that I was. Plus, they forget the all-important category: Waldensian.
7 doug // Dec 29, 2007 at 1:03 am
John, I will take that as an admission
8 Peter Davies // Dec 30, 2007 at 11:11 pm
I came out with all the usual stuff indicating the nice mix of generally acceptable theologies and spiritualities that make me the AngoCeltoGeliMatic that I am. The horror of horrors was being told that I am 32% Fundamentalist. Now, that surely cannot be right; one either is 100% Fundamentalist or 0% Fundamentalist; in the taxonomy of these things one either is or is not a Fundmentalist.
9 doug // Dec 30, 2007 at 11:48 pm
I don’t know Peter. I’m sure there’ll be some people at church who will respect you 32% more for it.
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