Everyone else in blogdom seems to be doing this quiz, and I hate to feel left out!
The result does not greatly surprise me, which is a bit of a relief.
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You scored as 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 by John Wesley and the Methodists.
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What's your theological worldview?
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Now, if I could just find the 11% of me that’s fundamentalist, I’m sure I could manage without it!
{ 13 comments… read them below or add one }
DH 06.13.05 at 8:14 pm
I was 75% Reformed Evangelical and 68% Evangelical/Holiness Wesleyan. Wow, I didn’t realize that we agree. However, I scored 43% Fundamentalist. I guess all of us have “extremes” it is a matter of recognizing them and limiting the negative affects of them. Would you agree?
P.S. Could you help me explain the difference between the two strong categories the quiz say I am? I’m a little confused. I guess what is the difference between Reformed and Wesleyan when bith come from the Reformation. I need your insight.
Dave Warnock 06.13.05 at 9:59 pm
That explains a lot. I am 3% more fundamentalist than you and 10% less liberal. I must almost be conservative
Randy 06.14.05 at 4:35 am
Richard, you and I look a lot alike. Amazing, huh?
RobS 06.14.05 at 7:32 am
I’ll swap your 11% fundementalist for my 11% modern liberal!
RobS 06.14.05 at 7:33 am
Mind you, I can’t even spell fundamentalist…
Richard 06.14.05 at 9:34 am
I know this is all just a bit of fun, but my impression is that the quiz has pegged people more or less where they might expect to be. And that surprised me, because i thought the answers I gave to some of the questions were likely to push the results in a different direction. The snapshot of “where we are” is interesting in itself, but I would be even more interested to see the results repeated at perhaps annual intervals, so that we could see the “trajectory” of change in worldview. Will my 11% go up or down?
Swan 06.14.05 at 2:53 pm
Richard, I scored exactly the same as you on the top three!
Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 75%
Emergent/Postmodern 68%
Neo orthodox 64%
Charismatic/Pentecostal 57%
Classical Liberal 46%
Reformed Evangelical 46%
Modern Liberal 43%
Roman Catholic 43%
Fundamentalist 39%
John 06.14.05 at 8:38 pm
From memory:
71% Wesleyan
68% Reformed Evangelical
64% Fundamentalist
Wood 06.15.05 at 9:21 pm
I came out, like 99% emergent/po-mo and only 75% modern liberal.
I demand a recount.
Joel 06.19.05 at 3:20 am
I am:
Emergent/Postmodern 79%
Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 75%
Neoorthodox 68%
Roman Catholic 68%
Reformed Evangelical 61%
Classical Liberal 50%
Modern Liberal 43%
Charismatic/Pentecostal 43%
Fundamentalist 18%
Joel 06.20.05 at 2:03 am
Richard,
Likely, that 11% “fundamentalist” view would at leat partially be your acknowledgement that God is sovereign. Only thing is, many of us who are more liberal/less conservative see God’s sovereignty in a different context than most fundamentalists. So you may or may not be 11% fundamentalist. And of course I checked in at 18%!
Joel 06.20.05 at 2:04 am
Richard,
Likely, that 11% “fundamentalist” view would at leat partially be your acknowledgement that God is sovereign. Only thing is, many of us who are more liberal/less conservative see God’s sovereignty in a different context than most fundamentalists. So you may or may not be 11% fundamentalist. And of course I checked in at 18%!
Joel 06.20.05 at 2:16 am
DH,
I know you directed the question to Richard, but “reformed” today is often used in terms of Calvinism. Also, Wesleyanism in many ways is more experienced-based and practice-based than theologically based as a matter of reformation. That is, much of the theological reformation for Wesleyans came not from Methodism but as inherited from the Church of England. Wesleyans retain more of the Catholic influence than many other Protestant reformation groups. Wesley didn’t so much change theology as he applied it through covenant groups, service to the poor, witnessing, etc.. Most of the underlying theology he simply adopted from Anglicanism. (I’m not a terrific church historian or theologian so I may be over-simplifying.)
The fact that someone can be described as both Reformed and Wesleyan indicates that many differences are rooted in semantics, not in practice.
On a similar test at Chris Tessone’s blog, I came out as 67% identifiying with Calvin. I don’t identify with “TULIP” theology, however, and I believe the wording of some questions skewed the results. On the other hand, “TULIP” was just one part of Calvin’s theology.