All this time I have been teaching, blogging, and wrestling with what tradition I identify most with and all I had to do was take this quiz. (Thanks to my friend Bob Practico and his blog). It has some good questions but their nuances were to strong to make it accurate for me. My goodness, I am 75% Holiness and 75% Reformed!! That is great! It must have a postmodern grading system to allow for that. And Neo-Orthodox comes in a close third.

See what you get and let me know.

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan
75%
Reformed Evangelical
75%
Neo orthodox
71%
Emergent/Postmodern
64%
Fundamentalist
57%
Charismatic/Pentecostal
43%
Roman Catholic
36%
Classical Liberal
36%
Modern Liberal
25%
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    2 replies to "Determine your tradition"

    • James-the-lesser
      2013-10-10

      I am neo-orthodox. (Actually, I am an Ordained Assemblies of God minister) You reject the human-centeredness and skepticism of liberal theology, but neither do you go to the other extreme and make the Bible the central issue for faith. You believe that Christ is God’s most important revelation to humanity, and the Trinity is hugely important in your theology. The Bible is also important because it points us to the revelation of Christ. You are influenced by Karl Barth and P T Forsyth.

      Neo orthodox
      86%
      Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan
      82%
      Emergent/Postmodern
      68%
      Classical Liberal
      68%
      Roman Catholic
      50%
      Reformed Evangelical
      50%
      Charismatic/Pentecostal
      50%
      Fundamentalist
      43%
      Modern Liberal
      29%

      Bet that surprises some of you that Pentecostals can be and usually are Orthodox as well as solidly in the Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan tradition. 🙂

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    • James-the-lesser
      2013-10-10

      Shucks, I made the mistake of taking the test again. Now I am an 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.
      Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan
      86%
      Neo orthodox
      82%
      Roman Catholic
      71%
      Classical Liberal
      68%
      Emergent/Postmodern
      68%
      Reformed Evangelical
      39%
      Charismatic/Pentecostal
      39%
      Modern Liberal
      32%
      Fundamentalist
      🙁

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