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08-08-2007, 08:59 PM
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ouden estin
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Which theologian are you?
Which theologian are you?
Put it here cos it refers to Christianity only. No prizes for guessing who I am. Thomas |
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08-09-2007, 07:47 AM
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Embracing the Mystery
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Re: Which theologian are you?
I can't remember the guy it said I was. I'd never heard of him before and he had a wierd name. Also, the description sounded nothing much like my beliefs, so maybe I made some mistakes in answering? More than a few items on the list would have been optimally answered not by agree/disagree, but by "I don't care" or "no opinion" or "not really sure."
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08-09-2007, 01:21 PM
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Re: Which theologian are you?
...have just googled charles finney- he was a big cheese- never had a church, or an official denomination, but the father of the revival movement in the states, apparently... wikipedia has a page on him, with some good links, so will have a nosey at his writings..
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08-09-2007, 01:30 PM
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The door. The key.
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Re: Which theologian are you?
You scored as a John CalvinMuch of what is now called Calvinism had more to do with his followers than Calvin himself, and so you may or may not be committed to TULIP, though God's sovereignty is all important.
47% John Calvin 33% Karl Barth 33% Augustine 13% Paul Tillich 0% Jonathan Edwards 0% Charles Finney 0% Friedrich Schleiermacher 0% Jürgen Moltmann 0% Martin Luther 0% Anselm |
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08-09-2007, 11:03 PM
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Re: Which theologian are you?
Friedrich Schleiermacher 67%
Charles Finney 60% Paul Tillich 33% John Calvin 33% Augustine 33% Jürgen Moltmann 27% Karl Barth 20% Martin Luther 20% Jonathan Edwards 7% Anselm 7% IVe got to look them all up.... |
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08-10-2007, 12:31 AM
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Mind or spirit?
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Re: Which theologian are you?
Martin Luther
93% Paul Tillich 67% John Calvin 47% Charles Finney 40% Anselm 33% Karl Barth 27% Augustine 27% Jürgen Moltmann 20% Jonathan Edwards 0% Friedrich Schleiermacher 0% |
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08-10-2007, 03:28 AM
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Re: Which theologian are you?
You scored as a Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich sought to express Christian truth in an existentialist way. Our primary problem is alienation from the ground of our being, so that our life is meaningless. Great for psychotherapy, but no longer very influential. Paul Tillich 73% Anselm 60% Jürgen Moltmann 53% Friedrich Schleiermacher 47% Augustine 47% John Calvin 47% Karl Barth 47% Charles Finney 27% Martin Luther 20% Jonathan Edwards 13% |
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08-10-2007, 03:29 AM
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Episcopalian
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Re: Which theologian are you?
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I don't know how Aquinas could be a result given the questions that quiz asked! |
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08-10-2007, 01:47 PM
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ouden estin
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Re: Which theologian are you?
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Actually, I answered 'at the run', as it were, allowing only a full-on yes or no (no shades of grey for me!) and came out as 100% Augustine, which suits me down to the ground, but with a strong bias towards predeterminationism, which I would of course refute. Once my course is finished, the next question is do I learn Latin or Greek to continue my studies? I would have said Greek, as my affinity has alays been to the Greek Fathers and Platonism. Now I'm moving towards an Arisotelian idea of the 'person' as deployed by Augustine and refined by Aquinas ... and away from the Greeks. Interesting lecture here: Lecture 1959 Argues that the Greeks never saw the 'person' as standing central in their disposition of being, but closer to the Buddhist view, in fact, as an accidental category, as it were ... in extreme Orthodox theology, both God and man vanish into some transcendant and apophatic distance ... Augustine laid the foundation of the idea of the person as a transcendental – which in fact suits my belief better, that 'the body' is not only not evil, but has its place in the theophanic order and is not something we discard along the way ... ... but the really interesting idea is that the Orthodox don't like Augustine, and Latin theology generally, the doctrine of Immanence, because the Orthodox philosophical argument, on which their theology is founded, is still influenced by a transcendental Platonism. Anyway — one of my daughters is off to Canada on Monday, for 6 months ... so I'm preparing my 'brave face' for the airport ... I bet Aquinas wouldn't have blubbed ... Augustine might have, though .... Thomas |
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08-11-2007, 09:33 PM
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What was the question?
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Re: Which theologian are you?
You scored as a John CalvinMuch of what is now called Calvinism had more to do with his followers than Calvin himself, and so you may or may not be committed to TULIP, though God's sovereignty is all important.
John Calvin100% Jürgen Moltmann87% Karl Barth67% Friedrich Schleiermacher67% Augustine67% Anselm67% Charles Finney33% Jonathan Edwards33% Paul Tillich33% Martin Luther33% Anyone surprised?...(lol) |
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