It’s Friday and time for a quiz….
Friday March 17th 2006, 10:03 am
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I’m not a Christian except in the most broad, most left sense, but this was still a fun quiz on schools of Christian thought.

Here are my results (apparently I groan a lot):

You might be an affective pray-er beyond words. You feel the love of God for you, and address him with groans, tongues or silence; you love to bask in his presence. Any tradition that provides warm emotion and a sense of God’s immediate presence will suit you - from the Anglican mystical tradition to the charismatic movement.

If you’re looking for a place to start, you could do worse than the works of William Inge (an examples of a tradition fictionalised as that of the Darrows by Susan Howatch); or you could explore the writings of the early Quakers, or a contemporary writer such as Ruth Barton. But the work that may most exactly meet your needs is the fourteenth century anonymous work ‘The Cloud of unknowing’. ‘By love may he be gotten and holden, but by thought neither… and therefore struggle to bide in this darkness as long as you may, evermore crying after him whom you love…’ At the same time, according to Westerhoff, you are likely to feel a need for and a fascination with the oppsite poles (a more reflective, active, verbal spirituality).

You will find this, according to your bent, in conservative evangelicalism, liberation theology or even in the more austere forms of Jesuit thought.
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