Monday, September 24, 2007

Anselm

Apparently I relate best to one of the most brilliant minds of the Catholic Church in theology.

Sweet!

Wait a sec... I'm not Catholic!

As it is, this is quite interesting to me as I have never been one to delve deep into theology, although as a Christian I am automatically a theologian. Mayhap it is time to find out where I truly stand with regards to all of this.

Here's the Wikipedia entry on Anselm


You scored as Anselm, Anselm is the outstanding theologian
of the medieval period.He sees man's primary problem as
having failed to render unto God what we owe him, so God
becomes man in Christ and gives God what he is due. You
should read 'Cur Deus Homo?'

Anselm


100%

Charles Finney


73%

Karl Barth


60%

Jürgen Moltmann


40%

Martin Luther


40%

Augustine


33%

Friedrich Schleiermacher


33%

John Calvin


33%

Paul Tillich


33%

Jonathan Edwards


0%

Which theologian are you?
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3 comments:

James Straight said...

I ended up 100% Anselm and 73% Augustine. Before taking the quiz I would have thought those numbers would be reversed.

Anselm is certainly an interesting man. His writings were considered so great that he is one of only 33 men and women that the Catholic Church gives the title "Doctor of the Church" (doctor being the latin word for teacher.)

James

SarahW said...

James, glad to see you are still around!

Why did you believe those numbers would have been reversed?

James Straight said...

I can't remember ever reading anything written by Anselm. but I have read quite a bit of Augustine (who is also a Doctor of the Church).

Although reading "quite a bit" of Augustine is kind of relative. I remember reading once that we have approximately 5 million words written by him. Most of that has never been translated from the original Latin and some of what has been translated has never been translated into English.

James