THEOLOGY TYPES (PSEUDO)
I generally like personality typologies, because they offer simplicity in complexity and provide concepts for a better understanding of ourselves and those around us. As they all depend on the choice of definition, however, often a typology speaks louder about its maker than about the person tested. (That is infact very true for any kind of research results!)
The "Which theologian are you?"-test which i found on Sarah's blog is certainly one of the worst of its kind. It is fun nevertheless and might encourage me to look into the writings of the 3 theologians that i "matched" with by 100%: Liberal Schleiermacher for his respect of the human factor, hard-core Calvin for his respect of God's sovereign kingship, and old Anselm for his orthodox confession that "Man's main sin is failing to give to God the obedience that we owe him." (which is a good example of how screwed up this test is - how important after all do i take the word "main" and what are the alternatives the test makes me rule out by agreeing to this superlative?)
While most of the questions are really ranting through boring phrases of old dogmatic debates, i found some questions particularly good expressions of a theology i could endorse:
- "We can only understand God by looking at humanity."
- "A God who cannot suffer is poorer than any human being."
- "It is necessary that the ugliness of sinners be balanced out by the moral beauty of the saints."
I scored "Orthodox Quaker" at another of these matching machines and i still guess this was closer to the truth.
Anyway, do the test, but do not believe the result! Rather reflect on your reactions to the questions... :)
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