Baptists - American Christians
Pentecostals - Baptists who speak in tongues
Methodists - Insecure Baptists
Anabaptists - Baptists who don't fight back
Presbyterians - Baptists who read
Reformed - Elect Baptists
Lutherans - Baptists who baptize infants
Episcopalians - Baptists who completely disagree with everything Baptist
Catholics - European Christians who came to America
Orthodox - European Christians who didn't come to America
Wesleyans?
ReplyDeleteRick
Look under Methodists:
ReplyDeleteVery Insecure Baptists
Is this the idea that one's upbringing, or social context, intepprets and understands innate ideas, such as justice within the narrow understanding of a "baptist" lens?
ReplyDeletechurch government is not appreciated in such a context, as it understands things in individual terms..
but, the church is not the epitome of individiual understanding, is it, as it intreprets still through a natural theological framework of understandin text and tradition, which in the larger frame limits understanding to questions about God...what about the theology of nature, instead? that discussionis not limited to text and tradition, but experience and reason, as well...
Wha ... huh?
ReplyDeleteKen, this makes me think of a conversation my wife had with a presbyterian friend the other day. He asked my wife what denomination we were with and she told him the Wesleyan church. He thought for a second and said with surprise, "Wait, you're Arminian?" When she answered yes to that he says, "I didn't think there were any of those still around."
ReplyDeleteMy response when she told me about it was, "Spoken like a true Calvinist!" If you don't know the patron Johns (Calvin and Piper), you don't know jack!
Orthodox - European Christians who didn't come to America
ReplyDeleteWhat?! I'm Puerto Rican (born and raised) AND Serbian Orthodox, no less! ;-)
Rats. There may be some flaws to my system!
ReplyDeleteKen, it is a perfect system to miff everyone, especially baptists!
ReplyDeleteIn our current era, the era of the non-denominational myth, I've thought about developing a pseudo-diagnostic tool that analyzes a person. You know,
ReplyDelete45% Baptist
30% Secular
15% Methodist
10% Liberal
Hey Ken, I don't think this pseudo-diagnostic tool is that exhaustive, but here you go! :)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gotoquiz.com/what_christian_denomination_are_you_1
Oops, didn't get the whole link in there.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gotoquiz.com/what_christian_denomination_are_you_1
Would that be "jack" Chick? :)
ReplyDeleteMark,
ReplyDeleteI've had the reverse of that experience... in discussion with one of my relatives about a year ago, they commented to me that they believed Calvinism / doctrine of predestination had died out centuries ago.