Pietism as Apologetics
Posted by dlw in Uncategorized at 8:38 pm | 
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I found about a quiz that tells you what sort of Apologeticist you tend to be. I took it twice and put the 2nd scores on the right. Here are my results.
Fideist 63%
Classical Apologetics 43%
Reformed/Presuppositionalist 40%
Evidentialist 20%
Atheist 20%
What kind of apologist are you?
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I’m eclectic but primarily fideistic. This means I fit with theologians like Kierkegaard, Luther and Barth and believe that knowing God is a primarily personal, subjective matter. This fits with my Pietism that was a revival in Lutheranism that learned from Reformed theology through Puritanism. I think my Atheist portion is due to the fact that some of the questions were of the nature of “Can God pick up a boulder that is so big that God cannot pick it up?” The real answer is fish.
dlw
The 24th of May, 2006 at 11:44 pm
Hi dlw
Zen Christianity, I see:-) Paul preached something very similar when we wrote that the Greeks wanted wisdom and the Jews wanted signs, but Paul offered only Christ crucified. But when I tested I came out overwhelmingly classic evidentialist even though I don’t consider myself to be that at all. The problem was that when the test made extreme “the only way to…” or “the best way to…” claims I disagreed strongly. I don’t buy the “one-size-fits-all” way to know Christ, I agree with Paul’s “all things to all people” approach.
your friend
Keith
The 25th of May, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Here are my results. I have no idea what a “fideist” is. It sounds like it’s from the Latin fido, so I must be a dog-lover.
Fideist
Classical Apologist
Evidentialist
Reformed/Presuppositional Apologist
Atheist
What kind of apologist are you?
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The 25th of May, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Well, you scored the same as me on Fideism and Classical Apologists.
And those are the top two in my book.
You might like Kierkegaard, he is broadly considered the forerunner of existentialism, like Jean-Paul Sartre.
dlw
The 25th of May, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Keith,
I think the key is not to overreact to the questions, unless they really are saying something extreme.
But yeah, I’m guessing that the quiz is not the best, as I know others have not identified well with their outcomes.
dlw
The 31st of May, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Keith,
Did you teach a writing course at Boston University?
The 1st of June, 2007 at 11:18 am
I’d doubt it. Keith is a math teacher.
dlw