Thursday, September 28, 2006

Back in England - and feeling a sense of absolute dependency?

It is great to be back in Oxford, although there have been the usual transitions to make, what with the smaller food portions, bathrooms two flights of stairs away, and all the actual questions behind the questions. But the bigges transition and shock for me was getting used to my new theological label. I took this test for which theologian I am closest to, and here are the results:

You scored as Friedrich Schleiermacher. You seek to make inner feeling and awareness of God the centre of your theology, which is the foundation of liberalism. Unfortunately, atheists are quick to accuse you of simply projecting humanity onto 'God' and liberalism never really recovers.

Friedrich Schleiermacher: 87%
Anslem: 80%
Jonathan Edwards: 73%
John Calvin: 67% (I think they meant 100%)
Augustine: 53%
Martin Luther: 47%
Jurgen Moltmann: 47%
Paul Tillich: 47%
Karl Barth: 40%
Charles Finney: 0% (Is he really a theologian?)

Built on the foundation of liberalism? Really? I have been influenced by Heidegger and Rahner recently, but I didn't think to any serious extent. I mean, at least I didn't get Luther and all those zeros to questions like "You think God is going to start weird charasmatic revivals which have absolutely no substance and convict people of nothing" saved me from any Charles Finney contamination. Still I think the scale must be a bit off. What say you guys out there? Here are my guesses:

Charles = Paul Tillich
J. Morg = Jurgen Moltmann
Redness = Karl Barth
Josef = Martin Luther. Definitely Martin Luther.

Let me know how it goes and whether you think I am really that close to the "Father of Liberalism." Seriously.