The Test Says I’m Paul Tillich
Jan 17th, 2008 by Micah Tillman
My sister-in-law put a link to this quiz up on her blog. It’s supposed to tell you which theologian you are.
It claims I’m Paul Tillich, though I seem to have scored the same for Luther as for Tillich. Here’s what it said about Tillich:
Paul Tillich sought to express Christian truth in an existentialist way. Our primary problem is alienation from the ground of our being, so that our life is meaningless. Great for psychotherapy, but no longer very influential.
Beside the last sentence, I think that sounds pretty cool. I should read Tillich some time. Here were my scores overall:
Paul Tillich 67%
Martin Luther 67%
Karl Barth 47%
Charles Finney 33%
Augustine 33%
John Calvin 33%
Friedrich Schleiermacher 0%
Jürgen Moltmann 0%
Anselm 0%
Jonathan Edwards 0%
I suppose the percentages mean how much I agree with them, not how much of them I am. Because there’d be 280% of me if the latter were the case.
Unfortunately, I don’t know as much about the various theologians as I do about political theory, so I can’t give as definite a “Thumbs Up” to this quiz as I did to the “political identity” quiz I took a little while back.
I am Anselm. Although I had equal agreement with John Calvin as with him.
I didn’t see much that would correspond to Wesleyan theology, which is where I actually fit.
Darn it, I wanted to be Paul Tillich.
But Paul Tillich was way at the bottom of my list. It said I was Anselm.
How come Micah gets to be all the cool theologians?
Luther and Tillich. We have something in common. I like Moltmann as well