Anglicans hold the faith of the Scriptures, the historic creeds and the undivided early Church, ordered by bishops in historic succession and shaped by the Book of Common Prayer. They teach salvation by grace through faith in Christ, though provinces describe justification in somewhat different words, and they keep the two sacraments of the Gospel, Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
More about Anglican beliefs →Which Christian denomination are you closest to?
Where would you fit among 2,000 years of Christians? 42 questions, about 7 minutes.
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Meet the traditions you sit closest to, the Christians who answered like you (and one who’d push back), and practices to help you stay close to Jesus.
Ignatius of Antioch
Irenaeus of Lyons
Tertullian
Athanasius of Alexandria
Basil the Great
Gregory of Nazianzus
Gregory of Nyssa
John Chrysostom
John of Damascus
Augustine of Hippo
Thomas Aquinas
Francis of Assisi
Ignatius of Loyola
Teresa of Ávila
Catherine of Siena
John Henry Newman
Seraphim of Sarov
Kallistos Ware
Martin Luther
C. F. W. Walther
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Huldrych Zwingli
John Calvin
Thomas Cranmer
John Owen
Jonathan Edwards
John Bunyan
Charles Spurgeon
John Wesley
Charles Wesley
George Whitefield
Richard Allen
George Fox
Menno Simons
Alexander Campbell
Phoebe Palmer
Catherine Booth
Aimee Semple McPherson
Billy Graham
Gregory Palamas
Example result
A sample report from example answers.
Your views overlap most with Anglican, then Lutheran and Methodist.
Lutherans confess that we are justified freely for Christ's sake through faith, and that God creates and strengthens that faith through His Word and the sacraments. The Book of Concord, especially the Augsburg Confession and Luther's Small Catechism, sets out this faith as a faithful exposition of Scripture, the only rule and norm.
More about Lutheran beliefs →Methodists teach that God's grace goes before everyone, that we are "justified by faith only", and that the Spirit leads believers on to perfect love of God and neighbor. They hold the historic creeds, two sacraments, and the Articles of Religion handed down from John Wesley, and they put faith to work in love and service.
More about Methodist beliefs →Where your answers sit
Authority
Scripture aloneScripture with Tradition
Positions run from 0 at the left to 100 at the right.
- Example answers (diamond): 50
- 1. Anglican (Anglican Church in North America): 25
- 2. Lutheran (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America): 0
- 3. Methodist (United Methodist Church): 50
(i)
The middle includes both Scripture read with reason and experience, and the Friends answer about Christ’s inward leading. Those are different views.
The Lord’s Supper
Sign and memorialChrist truly present
Positions run from 0 at the left to 100 at the right.
- Example answers (diamond): 100
- 1. Anglican (Anglican Church in North America): 100
- 2. Lutheran (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America): 100
- 3. Methodist (United Methodist Church): 100
(i)
The presence end includes different teachings about how Christ is present, including presence by His Spirit.
Who is baptized
Believers’ baptismInfant baptism too
Positions run from 0 at the left to 100 at the right.
- Example answers (diamond): 100
- 1. Anglican (Anglican Church in North America): 100
- 2. Lutheran (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America): 100
- 3. Methodist (United Methodist Church): 100
(i)
The middle includes either form by family choice, and the separate view that no outward baptism is needed.
Grace and free will
God’s choosing brings faithGrace enables a free response
Positions run from 0 at the left to 100 at the right.
- Example answers (diamond): 50
- 1. Anglican (Anglican Church in North America): 25
- 2. Lutheran (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America): 0
- 3. Methodist (United Methodist Church): 100
(i)
Every answer gives God’s grace the first place. The middle holds God’s choosing and human choice together without a system.
Spiritual gifts
Sign gifts for the apostles’ ageAll gifts for today
Positions run from 0 at the left to 100 at the right.
- Example answers (diamond): 75
- 1. Anglican (Anglican Church in North America): 75
- 2. Methodist (United Methodist Church): 75
(i)
The middle includes the answer that does not sort gifts into kinds; it does not mean half the gifts continue.
Worship order
Free and spontaneousLiturgical worship
Positions run from 0 at the left to 100 at the right.
- Example answers (diamond): 85
- 1. Anglican (Anglican Church in North America): 85
- 2. Lutheran (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America): 85
(i)
The free end includes silent, unprogrammed worship. The middle is an ordered service of preaching, prayer and psalms or hymns.
A figure who shares your views
Gregory of Nazianzus
c. 329–390
These example answers agree on 3 of 4 compared topics.
Who’d push back on your views
Alexander Campbell
1788–1866
These example answers differ on 4 of 4 compared topics. They’d have reasons worth hearing.
- Section 1: Who Jesus is
- Section 2: The gospel
- Section 3: Scripture and authority
- Section 4: Salvation and grace
- Section 5: The church
- Section 6: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper
- Section 7: The Holy Spirit’s gifts
- Section 8: Mary and the saints
- Section 9: Last things
- Section 10: Worship
This compares your views with what each tradition teaches. It doesn't measure faith, salvation or how good a Christian you are, or judge which church is right. To understand a church, read its own words and talk with its pastors.
How the quiz works
Each answer is compared with what each tradition’s own confession, catechism or statement of faith teaches. A position only counts once it has been checked against that primary text. Anything we haven’t been able to check yet is left out of the score and marked on the tradition’s page.
It compares 14 families of churches. Their official texts confess the Trinity and Jesus as fully God and fully human, with one exception: some unprogrammed Friends’ meetings, which keep no creed, don’t use that language. Churches of Christ also confess the Trinity. They keep no binding written creed, so their positions come from published descriptions of their teaching. Latter-day Saints, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Oneness Pentecostals aren’t included. Seventh-day Adventists will be added once we’ve read their own statement of beliefs.
Your answers are scored on your own device. Sharing top traditions leaves your answers out; sharing full answers includes them in the link.