RT Article
T1 Biblical Conservatism and Psychological Type
JF Journal of empirical theology
VO 29
IS 2
SP 137
OP 159
A1 Village, Andrew
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/156207055X
AB The Village Bible Scale, a measure of biblical conservatism, was completed by 3,243 Church of England readers of the Church Times in 2013 alongside a measure of psychological type. Overall, biblical conservatism was higher for men than women, for those under 60 than those over 60, for those with school-level than those with university-level qualifications, for laity than clergy, and higher among evangelicals and charismatics than among those in Anglo-catholic or broad-church traditions. For the sample as a whole, the perceiving process was the only dimension of psychological type to predict biblical conservatism, which was positively correlated with sensing and negatively correlated with intuition. Within church traditions, sensing scores predicted biblical conservatism in Anglo-catholic and broad-church traditions, but not for evangelicals. Thinking function scores were positively correlated with biblical conservatism among evangelicals, but negatively correlated among Anglo-catholics. The findings point to the possible roles of psychological preferences in influencing predispositions for retaining or changing theological convictions.
K1 Anglo-catholic : Bible : Church of England : evangelical personality : liberalism : literalism
DO 10.1163/15709256-12341340