Tuesday, June 28, 2005

What's Your Theological Worldview?

You scored as Emergent/Postmodern.
You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don't think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this.

Emergent/Postmodern
79%
Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan
75%
Reformed Evangelical
57%
Neo orthodox
54%
Charismatic/Pentecostal
50%
Classical Liberal
46%
Fundamentalist
43%
Roman Catholic
39%
Modern Liberal
29%
You scored as Emergent/Postmodern. "What's your theological worldview?created with QuizFarm.com";

So, took this quiz, and scored as a postmodern. I don't suppose that's all that surprising. The people and books that have been shaping my faith in Christ in the last couple of difficult years are all somewhat aligned with the postmodern "movement." At the same time, I cringe at the label - it's something that still has a great number of negative connotations attached to it in other church circles. I think I really just have an aversion to labels as a whole. Labels are so confining. If I begin saying that I am "postmodern" then I am slotting myself into a category, that would seem to require rejection of certain aspects of my faith gleaned from my decidedly un-postmodern background.

I grew up in a conservative evangelical church. Yes, there are definitely people there who would fall into the "postmodern" category right alongside me, but there are others there who would probably consider the way I'm "doing faith" right now borderline heretical. I have the pastor's kid complex - a need for everybody to be happy with my choices all the time, but a need to also escape the confines of the environment in which I grew up and figure out how this faith thing affects my daily life.