St. Maximos' Hut

Well....I took the thing. Seems as though I am closest in score to Barth, but within 3 points of St. Augustine and John Calvin. Very, very puzzling for an intransigent Thomist. Perhaps I need to reread the Summa.

I think that the quiz questions tend to be a bit more absolute than the theological categories they purport to represent, especially those on the question of sin, hell and eschatology.

I did like the link to on-line bachelor of divinity degrees offered by the University of London, though. An interesting educational delivery system for a degree that really should be residential--it's that prayer life thing. Perhaps non-chapel based programs (or is that programmes?) are part of the theological decline. But, then again, some of us are people of the 13th century and overly fussy about these sorts of things.

I am reminded of one seminary I visited before entering the Dominican House. The guide cheerfully informed me that chapel had been dropped from the residential program as "unpopular" among the students. In lieu of it, seminarians often visited the pottery-making room to "get centered." So much for the rigors of a residential degree-on reflection, it perhaps might just be better to learn at as great a distance as possible from such august institutions.

Fr. C.