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Church Tradition and Psychological Type Preferences among Anglicans in England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Andrew Village ,
Leslie J. Francis  and
Charlotte Craig
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Abstract

A sample of 290 individuals attending Evangelical Anglican churches and Anglo-Catholic churches in central England completed the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, a measure of psychological type preferences. Overall, there were clear preferences for sensing over intuition, for feeling over thinking, and for judging over perceiving, which is consistent with the findings of two earlier studies profiling the psychological type of Anglican churchgoers. However, there was also a significantly higher proportion of intuitives among Anglo-Catholics than among Evangelical Anglicans, which is consistent with the greater emphasis in Anglo-Catholic churches on mystery, awe, and the centrality of sacraments in worship which may resonate with the intuitive predisposition. The implications of these findings are discussed for the benefits of breadth and diversity within Anglicanism.

Keywords

Anglo-CatholicchurchgoerschurchmanshipEvangelical AnglicanKeirsey Temperament Sorterpsychological type
Type
Reflections from Archbishop of South Africa
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Journal of Anglican Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , May 2009 , pp. 93 - 109
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Copyright © The Journal of Anglican Studies Trust 2009

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