What Theologian are you?

I scored as "Martin Luthor" what ever that means to a JEW>

I am John Calvin and I really don't know what that means either.

I as Anselm. Huh. Not what I expected.

Anselm

Reply By: LocamamaPosted: Saturday, June 09, 2007 I am John Calvin and I really don't know what that means either.

Do any of you Christians have a clue about who any of these people are?

Reply By: MasonMPosted: Saturday, June 09, 2007 I scored as "Martin Luthor" what ever that means to a JEW>

I mean LEX LUTHOR I could understand. heh heh

Yeah, a lot of them are the reasons why Christianity has been split up into so many stupid denominations.

Martin Luthor nailed his 95 theses to a church door a started the protestant movement for real. Augustine was a famous early Church saint who was a pretty awesome guy personally if you can believe his confessions. He really knew how to live it up.

I got some German guy who was apparently obsessed with evil (or at least that's what the blurb said). I think it was because I answered strongly disagree to nearly all the questions.

Do any of you Christians have a clue about who any of these people are?

Martin Luther is the hero of the Protestant Faith. He defied the RCC in 1517 by nailing thesis to the church door. Many movies including a fairly recent one in the local theaters have been done on him.

He managed to break loose of the church he once loved. He was a Priest who opened up the bible and found out things in there that went against what the church was teaching. He was a man of anguish. He couldn't please God deeply enough as he was deeply aware of his own sin and of God's holiness. He was driven to study the scriptures.

While reading Paul's epistles Luther realized that the word "righteousness" means not only the condition of being righteous but also the act of declaring someone to be righteous. God not only is righteous. God can also give righteousness to sinners. This he found out was God's gift, given to every person who trusts Jesus Christ as Savior. The verse that most spoke to his heart was "The just shall live by faith." Rom 1:17 So he went about to make changes in the RCC he loved so much but his words were not accepted. In fact it set off a loud explosion heard all over the world. On Oct 31, 1517 Luther nailed his theses on the chapel door in Wittenberg. It didn't go over well.

John Calvin also was a Catholic. He angered the French government with a speech he wrote peppered with quotes from Luther and found himself fleeing for his life. He became a Protestant also. Calvin ended up in Geneva Switzerland. While in Switzerland he wrote the first systematic summary of Protestant theoology "Institutes of the Christian Religion." He was forced to leave the city and found refuge in Strasbourg. There he cared for "French Protestants (Huguenots) who like Calvin had fled because of persecution. Calvin ended back at Geneva when this city needed someone to debate a RC thinker. It's said that when Calvin returned to his pulpit that he had to flee from three years before everyone in Geneva expected a severe rebuke. He did not preach the expected sermon. Instead he began to preach exactly where he had stopped without a trace of spite.

Of note: Calvin, Luther and Zwingli never escaped the idea that the church and the government could mingle.
I have all his commentaries and use them from time to time. I also have Luther's biography "Here I Stand."

Anselm

I have no idea who this guy is.

Ok, I just took the test. I thought it was good. Some of the questions I've been debating right here on JU.

I came out with Karl Barth who is a fairly new name to me but was introduced to him just recently. This is what it said about him:

You scored as a Karl Barth
The daddy of 20th Century theology. You perceive liberal theology to be a disaster and so you insist that the revelation of Christ, not human experience, should be the starting point for all theology.

These are the others. I guess I'll have to do a search on Anselm since I seem to agree with him so much.

Karl Barth
100%

Anselm
100%

Martin Luther
67%

Friedrich Schleiermacher
67%
J
onathan Edwards
67%

Augustine
67%

John Calvin
67%

Charles Finney
33%

Paul Tillich
33%

Jürgen Moltmann
0%

Really?

Really! Do you?

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 73% John Calvin 67% Jürgen Moltmann 67% Anselm 47% Charles Finney 47% Paul Tillich 40% Martin Luther 27% Augustine 27% Karl Barth 20% Jonathan Edwards 0% Which theologian are you? created with QuizFarm.com

Somebody explain that Diet of Worms thing to me. I always thought that sounded kinda gross...  

After Luther nailed his paperwork to the door he was invited to a party by the Roman Emperor. This meeting would occur in the German city of Worms. The Latin word for an imperial meeting is "Diet." So it was called The Diet (meeting) of Worms.

Luther expected to die at the diet. A century earlier under the same type of circumstance Jan Hus was burned at the stake. Martin was very scared at this meeting even asking for time to think things over. The next day he replied with the most famous quote of his..."My conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. God help me."

He was kidnapped by his friends on his way out probably saving his life. He was taken to an abandoned castle where he stayed for most of a year studying and writing much during that time.

Worms is a city. A Diet is a big meeting. Link. I figure you're making a funny though.

yes. I didn't sleep through ALL of history class but I did try to stay on the back row.

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For those who sincerely don't know who these people are, Google Toolbar will set you free . Try the wikipedia plugin for it.

hahahah Baker, this image of Friedrich is forever burned in my brain as my image of you.

No wonder we're locking horns by looking at our results. Since we both seem to agree with Calvin somewhat...maybe we should look at Calvin's writings next regarding our "issues"...lol.

You scored as JEgen Moltmann, The problem of evil is central to your thought, and only a crucified God can show that God is not indifferent to human suffering. Christian discipleship means identifying with suffering but also anticipating the new creation of all things that God will bring about.

JEgen Moltmann67% Augustine53% Paul Tillich53% Anselm47% John Calvin47% Charles Finney40% Friedrich Schleiermacher40% Karl Barth33% Jonathan Edwards20% Martin Luther20%
Which theologian are you?
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Don't know who this guy is yet, but I will free myself with google! " crucified God can show that God is not indifferent to human suffering" This part is a bit interpretive. Only a crucified god? I don't remember agreeing to that per se. Kind of interesting that I am obsessed with evil in the sense that I wasn't aware that I was obsessed with evil until I was linked with this guy and now I can't help but be obsessed...

What interesting answers, thank you all for going through the trouble of answering the quiz. I will take Bakers advice and look these people up, I do wonder why there are no Jews Included on this list of theologians, I assume there must be more than a few of them.

Hi MM,
My curiosity quotient is sky high for the want to take this quiz. My filter won't let me open it...and I'm not big on going through the gyrations of disenabling it, etc., etc., etc.


Maybe that's just as well, since I know KFC would never let me live it down if I scored high on Martin Luther! I see that she has just finished teasing Bakerstreet.

Of Martin Luther KFC posts:


As always, there are 2 sides to every story! Here's mine.

KFC POSTS: He managed to break loose of the church he once loved.

I'm not going to nit-pick, but using the words "break loose" is overboard. In the Catholic Church, from her beginning at the day of Penetcost in 29AD, in Luther's day, and today, anyone at anytime can enter, and at any time, leave of their own free will.

KFC POSTS: He was a Priest who opened up the bible and found out things in there that went against what the church was teaching.

Let's rephrase keeping facts from myth: He was a priest (who broke his vow to God and apostated from the Church). There is NOTHING in the Catholic faith that contradicts Scripture as the Catholic faith comes directly from Jesus and Apostolic teaching and by Christ's own promise, has never been abrogated or changed in any way. He indicts the Faith for his misery, but he was not practicing the Faith. He was following a system of his own thinking. The end result was a physical, mental, and spiritual depression which by a strange process of reasoning he was to impute to the Chruch's teaching on good works while all the time he was living in direct and absolute opposition to her doctrinal teaching and disciplinary code.

Many as KFC have accepted the accounts of the troubles of his life as having sprung from the false doctrines and wierd practices of the Church, as portrayed by Luther himself once he lost what faith he had. Others have blamed Catholic doctrine for having failed to bring Luther the promised spiritual progress and consolation. What is the teaching of the Church that Luther either never understood or failed to put into practice? The Chruch has never taught that sanctity comes through our own justice or works. Never. It follows that we receive God's gift of grace by first reaching out and praying and through the Sacraments which infuse the salvific graces won on the Cross into the soul.

KFC POSTS:
He was a man of anguish. He couldn't please God deeply enough as he was deeply aware of his own sin and of God's holiness. He was driven to study the scriptures.

Boy, o boy, is this ever true. Luther was a troubled man. Luther was unquestionably a man of remarkable energy and great ability---qualities he used not to reform and unify Christ's Chruch, but to assail, insult and rend it as best he could. If any one will further study Luther, they can easily find that he has a record which shows:
besides broken vows to God, a grossly immoral conduct, a dangerous doctrine of salvation without regard to a moral life, asserting instead that man is wholly unable to resist sensual temptations; a violent reckless form of preaching that led others to violence and produced terrible results to human life and property (check out the hideous Peasants' War. The peasants justified their evil conduct by texts of Scripture which Luther had told them was their only and sufficient guide.

A condoning of bigamy in order to retain a prince in Protestantism---Fierce and bloody intolerance to criticism---domineering arragance in his treatment and translation of the Scripture------and a direct incitement to burn and plunder Jewish houses, property and synagagues, all Catholic churches, monestaries, and nunneries.

KFC POSTS: While reading Paul's epistles Luther realized that the word "righteousness" means not only the condition of being righteous but also the act of declaring someone to be righteous. God not only is righteous. God can also give righteousness to sinners. This he found out was God's gift, given to every person who trusts Jesus Christ as Savior. The verse that most spoke to his heart was "The just shall live by faith." Rom 1:17 So he went about to make changes in the RCC he loved so much but his words were not accepted. In fact it set off a loud explosion heard all over the world. On Oct 31, 1517 Luther nailed his theses on the chapel door in Wittenberg. It didn't go over well.

KFC, it's true the CC would have no part of Luther's newfound notion of salvation....but all those who followed him and the other Reformers did and the new religion of Protestantism was begun. Protestantism conforms exactly to Luther’s system of salvation which he developed after reading Romans 1:17, “The just man liveth by faith.” By a process of reasoning peculiar to himself, he construed the word “faith” in this text to mean an assurance of “personal salvation” and ‘justification” to mean not an infusion of justice into the heart of the person justified, but a mere external imputation of it. This is taking St. Paul’s teaching too far to the extreme.

His novel doctrine erroneously dispenses with every other virtue enjoined in Scripture and secures the believer’s salvation through “faith without works” of Romans 3:28, a text, btw, that Luther falsified by adding the word, “alone”. Protestant oral tradition has handed down Luther’s teaching that we have only to believe in Him, take hold of His merits and put them on like a cloak i.e. external imputation. If we do that, we shall be saved and considered just by the righteousness of Christ. Luther said that all men have to do is remain passive. To attempt to do anything for himself for this salvation would be presumption.

So, summing up----one Scriptural verse, Romans 1:17, distorted by Martin Luther, with the assistance of the falsified Romans 3:28, became the foundation of Protestantism.

Reply By: lulapilgrimPosted: Monday, June 11, 2007

wow lula, so me a Jew scored as someone that seemed profoundly against Jews. sigh..