scholarly journals A Distinctive Leadership for a Distinctive Network of Churches? Psychological Type Theory and the Apostolic Networks

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie J. Francis ◽  
William K. Kay ◽  
Mandy Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Type Theory ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Psychological Type ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
Male Population ◽  
Population Norms ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis study compares the personality profile of male leaders connected with twelve apostolic networks of churches in the UK with the profile of Church of England clergymen. It makes a further comparison with the UK population norms. Data provided by 164 male apostolic network leaders demonstrated that, compared with the Church of England clergymen, they were more likely to prefer extraversion and less likely to prefer intuition. Compared with the UK male population norms, these leaders were more likely to prefer extraversion, intuition, feeling and judging. The implications of these findings are discussed for ministry and mission.

scholarly journals Reading and proclaiming the Advent call of John the Baptist: An empirical enquiry employing the SIFT method

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie J. Francis ◽  
Greg Smith
Keyword(s):  
Type Theory ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Psychological Type ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
John The Baptist ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Clergy Training ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

Drawing on Jungian psychological type theory, the SIFT method of biblical hermeneutics and liturgical preaching suggests that the reading and proclaiming of scripture reflects the psychological type preferences of the reader and preacher. This thesis is examined among a sample of clergy (training incumbents and curates) serving in the one Diocese of the Church of England (N = 22). After completing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the clergy worked in groups (designed to cluster individuals who shared similar psychological type characteristics) to reflect on and to discuss the Advent call of John the Baptist. The Marcan account was chosen for the exercise exploring the perceiving functions (sensing and intuition) in light of its rich narrative. The Lucan account was chosen for the exercise exploring the judging functions (thinking and feeling) in light of the challenges offered by the passage. In accordance with the theory, the data confirmed characteristic differences between the approaches of sensing types and intuitive types, and between the approaches of thinking types and feeling types.

scholarly journals The Psychological Type Profile of Readers in the Church of England: Clones of the Clergy or Distinctive Voices?

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie J. Francis ◽  
Susan H. Jones ◽  
Mandy Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Type Theory ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Psychological Type ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Current Generation ◽  
Ordained Ministry ◽  
The Church

AbstractThe present study employs Jungian psychological type theory to examine the profile of 236 Readers serving in the Church of England (108 males and 128 females) alongside previously published data providing the psychological type profile of clergy serving within the Church of England (626 men and 237 women). The analysis was interpreted to test two competing accounts of Reader ministry: that Reader ministry expresses similar qualities to those reflected in ordained ministry, and that Reader ministry represents a pioneer ministry on the boundaries of the church. Overall the findings demonstrate significant psychological similarities between those exercising Reader ministry and those exercising ordained ministry, suggesting that, in the current generation, Readers tend to present themselves as clones of the clergy rather than as distinctive voices equipped for pioneer ministry or for fresh expressions of church.

scholarly journals The Psychological Temperament of Anglican Clergy in Ordained Local Ministry (OLM): The Conserving, Serving Pastor?

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie J. Francis ◽  
Andrew Village
Keyword(s):  
Type Theory ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Psychological Type ◽  
Psychological Profile ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Temperament Theory ◽  
The Church

Abstract This study draws on psychological type theory as originally proposed by Jung (1971) and psychological temperament theory as proposed by Keirsey and Bates (1978) to explore the hypothesis that ordained local ministers (OLMs) within the Church of England reflect a psychological profile more in keeping with the profile of Church of England congregations than with the profile of established professional mobile clergy serving in the Church of England. Data provided by 135 individuals recently ordained as OLMs (79 women and 56 men) supported the hypothesis. Compared with established professional mobile clergy there is a higher proportion of the Epimethean Temperament (SJ) among OLMs. Oswald and Kroeger (1988) characterise SJ religious leaders as ‘the conserving, serving pastor’. The implications of these findings are discussed for the evolving ministry of the Church of England.

General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 80-84
Author(s):  
John F Stuart
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Church Of Scotland ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Church ◽  
National Borders

The General Synod met at St Paul's and St George's Church in Edinburgh from 9 to 11 June 2016. In his charge to Synod, the Primus, the Most Revd David Chillingworth, reflected on the injunction of St Paul to ‘please God, who tests our hearts’. As the Synod prepared to consider canonical change in relation to marriage, he asked how the Church was to continue to express the love and unity to which it was called by God. During the preceding year, deep pain in relationships had been experienced both in the Anglican Communion and with the Church of Scotland and Church of England – and there was a need to explore whether the Scottish Episcopal Church itself might have contributed to that distress and to shape a response that ‘pleased God, who tests our hearts'. In the light of the (then) forthcoming referendum on the European Union, the Primus suggested that it was not the wish of many in Scotland to use national borders to protect economic privilege. If the referendum took the UK out of the European Union, it could have profound effects on the unfolding story of the new Scotland and of the UK as a whole.

Changing patterns in recruitment to stipendiary ministry: A study in psychological profiling

Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 268-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie J. Francis ◽  
Greg Smith
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Psychological Type ◽  
Psychological Profile ◽  
Transformative Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
Psychological Profiling ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
The Church

This article tests the hypothesis that the Church of England may be recruiting into stipendiary ministry a different psychological profile of clergy to respond to the changing demands of parochial ministry. Using the Francis Psychological Type Scales, the profiles of 90 male and 35 female curates under the age of 40 ordained into stipendiary ministry in 2009 and 2010 were compared with the profiles of 626 clergymen and 237 clergywomen reported in a study published in 2007. The major difference between the two groups concerns the significantly higher proportions of sensing types and the Epimethean temperament (SJ) among the curates. These shifts in psychological type and temperament promise a Church for the future that is more tightly managed but less inspirational and less responsive to transformative development.

Safeguarding Tradition: Psychological Type Preferences of Male Vergers in the Church of England

2006 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 457-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte L Craig ◽  
Bruce Duncan ◽  
Leslie J Francis
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Psychological Type ◽  
The Church

Mission-shaped Methodism and Fresh Expressions

Holiness ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-218
Author(s):  
Joanne Cox-Darling
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
First Century ◽  
Holiness Movement ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Church

AbstractThe Mission-Shaped Church report by the Church of England prompted the Methodist Church and the Church of England in the UK to respond to the dislocation being felt between the inherited model of church and the missiological challenges of the twenty-first century. The most significant ecumenical development arising from the report was the formation of the Fresh Expressions initiative, whose sole task was to release leaders and communities to found churches for the ‘unchurched’.Examples of Anglican fresh expressions are much researched, but Methodist contributions less so. This essay argues that Methodist people, as people of a holiness movement of mission and ministry, have much to offer to the current ecclesial debate. There is a need for fresh expressions to be denominationally distinctive before they can be distilled into something new.

The Satanic Verses and the State (II)

2020 ◽  
pp. 132-153
Author(s):  
Asha Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Common Law ◽  
The State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
British India ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
Satanic Verses ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Church

This second chapter on The Satanic Verses considers the collision between the novel’s anti-statist energies and Rushdie’s increasing dependency on the Thatcher government after the fatwa, an unlikely custodian of literary freedom at the end of the Cold War. It then turns to the precise ways the state offered Rushdie protection, focusing on the anachronistic stipulations in English common law restricting the crime of blasphemy to the Church of England debated in the legal cases against the novel in the UK and in Europe. The second half revisits the secular foundations of the British legal system, considering the alternative stance on free expression in diverse societies adopted in British India and Bhikhu Parekh’s communitarian alternative to the individualism of British liberalism.

Hatred, Sexual Orientation, Free Speech and Religious Liberty

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Leigh
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Employment Discrimination ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Church ◽  
Partial Success

In recent years, the clash between supporters of religious liberty and sexual orientation equality legislation has led to repeated battles both in Parliament and the courts. First came the clashes over the scope of exemptions in employment discrimination legislation for religious groups. The UK Regulations dealing with employment discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation give a limited exception for ‘employment for purposes of an organised religion’, which allows an employer to apply a requirement related to sexual orientation to comply with the doctrines of the religion, or to avoid conflicting with the strongly held religious convictions of a significant number of the religion's followers. A legal challenge brought to the scope of this exception was unsuccessful but, despite that, the exemption has not averted damaging findings of discrimination against the Church of England. The Bishop of Hereford was held to have discriminated unlawfully in blocking the appointment of a practising homosexual to a youth-officer post within the Church of England. The partial success of religious groups in achieving exemption was followed by defeat in the equivalent regulations dealing with discrimination in goods and services, made under the Equality Act 2006, despite the claims of Catholic adoption agencies that they would rather close than place children with same-sex couples.

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