Who Said What? Test Your Theological Quotation IQ…

Who Said What? Test Your Theological Quotation IQ…

Without the use of reference books or the internet, match the quotes to the theologians listed below by placing the proper letter in the blank after the quote. 

The answers will be placed in the comment section at 9:00 pm (PST).

Good luck… this could be tough!

Who said:

1. “Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely”. _____

2. “The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.” _____

3. “We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.” _____

4. “The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.” _____

5. “In this matter of baptism – if I may be pardoned for saying it – I can only conclude that all the doctors have been in error from the time of the apostles…” _____

6. “Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God’s incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.” _____

7. “Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.” _____

8. “God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.”  _____

9. “He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.” _____

10. “The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God.” _____

11. “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” _____

12. “In the midst of life we are in death.” _____

13. “To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often” _____

14. “I look on all the world as my parish” ______

15. “Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.” _____

 

a. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

b. Thomas Cranmer

c. John Wesley

d. John Calvin

e. Stanley Hauerwas

f. Billy Graham

g. John Knox

h. Martin Luther

i. Pope Francis

j. Zwingli

k. Henri Nouwen

l. Thomas Cranmer

m. John Henry Newman

n. Augustine

o. Karl Barth

p. Jonathan Edwards

q. Paul Tillich

Grading Scale

15 Right – “Are you Mike Golden, D.Min.?”

14 Right – You use Barth’s Dogmatics for light reading.

13 Right – You’re reading Calvin’s Institutes to your wife every night

12 Right – After considering theology, you settled on astro-physics

11 Right – You’ve been preparing for this quiz

10 Right – Obviously reading Justo Gonzales in the two volume set

9 Right – Reading Justo Gonzales in the abridged single volume

8 Right – I think you like this and want to do more!

7 Right – You take notes on sermons…

6 Right – You take notes on some sermons…

5 Right – You can’t remember most sermons…

4 Right – “I never heard Chuck Smith quote one of these people.”

3 Right – You counted on prayer for the answers

2 Right – “My pastor says all theology is of the devil…”

1 Right – I didn’t know about theology comic books…

0 Right – “You might consider removing the tin foil hat…”