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Inspired by a post on tallskinnykiwi's site, I headed over to the QuizFarm and let myself be analyzed with the question "Which theologian are you?" I wasn't really surprised when Anselm of Canterbury turned up as the closest match. I've always been impressed with his writings, particularly Cur Deus Homo. While -- and here I send greetings to my emerging friends -- I do not necessarily think that justification and atonement are the only important features of the Gospel message, I still think they're the central ones and Anselm, with his satisfaction theory, hit the nail right on the head when he attempted to define the central purpose of the atonement.

Anyway, if you're interested, you can see all of my results below:

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%

John Calvin

87%

Charles Finney

80%

Martin Luther

67%

Jonathan Edwards

60%

Karl Barth

53%

Friedrich Schleiermacher

47%

Paul Tillich

47%

Jürgen Moltmann

40%

Augustine

33%

Which theologian are you?
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During my research for establishing the criteria for a truly Pentecostal approach to theology, I ran into one important element that I had so far neglected in my own developing model: early Pentecostalism organized its theological thinking around the fourfold (fivefold in some cases) perspective on Jesus Christ as savior, healer, baptizer, and coming king (Holiness-Pentecostals would add "sanctifier" as fifth element). This central framework constitutes the fundamental Pentecostal approach to the question of valid loci in systematic theology -- which should be retained, I think, in a new approach that takes into account our Pentecostal tradition. So Christocentrism becomes the organizing principle of Pentecostal dogmatics.

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Test for compliance to standard X or proposal Y are common-place in IT and I've gotten quite used to them. I just didn't know you could test yourself for standards compliance.
Svensvensven has created a questionnaire on QuizFarm.com where you can verify your compatibility with the creed of Chalcedon, one of the fundamental documents of Christianity, writted in 451 CE.
I was glad to see I'm not a heretic! :-)

HT to Kyle of neumatikos.org