Thanks to Wess for the tip, whom I should definitely not be more emerging than. Let me just say, before you relegate me to warmongering biblicist status, that my high fundamentalist rating is probably due to my sympathies for the phrase “God said it, I believe it, that settles it.” I don’t mean it like that. (More like this.) There’s basically no way to score Free Church or Radical Orthodox on this thing, as far as I can tell. “My favorite nationalism-bashing, left-leaning ethicist is a Texas cusser” was not a statement to rate. By the way, if you can stomach it, check by Mike Cope’s blog for an occasionally entertaining and 1/4 part spirit crushing discussion on pledging allegiance. [Editor's note: Mike is lovely, easy to stomach. I just meant the spurts of nationalism in the comments were a bit hard on my tender pacifist heart.]
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You scored as Emergent/Postmodern, You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don’t think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this.
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(Yeah, I can’t read the right side of that paragraph, either. But, I’m so emergent, I’m just like all “whatever” about it.)
These results put me right in line with the theoretical Free Church Catholic tradition that a few folks label SC’ers. Mostly, I think this supports my theory that the Restorationists have already made many mistakes in the Emerging future. Rock on, anti-institutionalist, tradition denying/pastiching, democratizing, discipleship heavy, early community idealizing, philosophically age-relevant cousins. From the future.
Next week: my results for the “Which Facts of Life Character Are You?’ quiz, and how they speak to my generation’s deep-seated need for mentors and auto-body related reality television.
glad you liked the quiz, the free church catholic tradition sounds attractive me, I’ve had a soft spot for the Catholic Work and Boff’s work. I am not really sure why I didn’t come out “emerging,” there were a few questions I thought, if I answer it this way it will make my score more like this, so I tried to be true to what I think and not what I want to think – but that reflexivity was hard. Ultimately it’s most likely my really strong sense of tradition, and the importance of Jesus Christ as the ultimate revelation of God that made me like Barth – which is strangely enough has resonance with Quakerism as well. If I could have scored “Radical Reformation” or John Howard Yoder – that would have made my day, but Barth’s not a bad second!
Anyways – good for you on the fundamentalist, I think we all have a little in us, it’s just hiding.
I ended up being Wesleyan/Catholic. I guess I like the old traditions.
At any rate, I feel like a liberal- reading blue like jazz was like reading into the mind of someone who felt like he had to recover from hating liberals. At any rate, I’m also totally depraved according to this quiz.
I’m totally, like, whatever about not being able to read the whole paragraph, too. ; ) i getcha.
ps. i took the quiz just now and i was off the charts emergent (96%), with classical liberal (68%) pulling in second and neo orthodox at third (57%). not sure what that says about my reaction to our restoration heritage. any theologians out there care to comment?
You are utterly lost to the denominations. Come out from among them immediately.
Here’s my confession (and no, Roman Catholic was not high on my list), I took the quiz twice. The first pass dubbed me Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan, which I thought was a bit odd. So, I gave my feelings about the Holy Spirit a little more thought and took it again to find out that I’m Emergent/Postmodern. Either way I’m screwed because my wife said she’ll divorce me since I’m not a “true” church of christ believer.
Well, now that you’re single, maybe give Roman Catholicism another shot.
I think I kinda like being lost to the denominations. ; ) don’t tell my grandparents.
Well, I won’t bring it up. But if they check my blog and see your comment, there’s really nothing I can do about that.