Spiritual Orientation
Meiers/Briggs Personality and Appealing Spiritual Orientation
Differing personalities find they are attracted to differing approaches to spirituality. If you know your Meiers/Briggs Personality profile, the following may be helpful to you. The Meiers/Briggs Personality Inventory can be accessed through couselors, community colleges and other sources.
Sensate Judging: Ignatian Spirituality
• Daily gospel meditation
• Carefully organized regimen of striving toward a relationship with god. An orderly well planned agenda with few changes.
• Will look at the historical dimension and see the continuity between what we believe and practice today, and what ahs been believed and practiced for 20 centuries.
• St. James (ISTJ) constantly exhorted the Christian to their Duty of implementing their faith into action in every part of their lives, with conservative law and order. He wanted Christianity to keep some of the basic Mosaic laws.
• St Matthew’s gospel, emphasizes continuity with past by pointing out again and again how Jesus is the fulfilment of the prophecies of the O.T.
Sensate Perceiver: Franciscan Spirituality
• Spontaneous prayer
• An attitude of openness and willingness to go in any direction that the Spirit calls
• Acts of loving service in a spirit of commitment to God’s will as a free, flexible, spontaneous, influential praising and living dialogue with God.
• Meditation on and celebration of the Beauty of Creation.
• St. Peter (ESFP) was a man of action, had responsibility for maintaining peace among the opposing theological schools, trouble-shooter during council of Jerusalem to reconcile Paul and James.
• St. Mark’s Gospel, action oriented, gives only a minimum of the teachings.
Ntuition Feeler: Augustinian Spirituality
• St Agustine of Hippo
• Striving to attain and maintain a deep, personal relationship with God
• Words of Bible are transposed to related to the needs of the individual
• Words of God as a method to discern the path God has willed for them through personal reflection.
• St. Paul (ENFP) envisioning new insights about the kingdom of God.
• Fought off the oppressive shackles of Mosaic law.
• St. Luke’s gospel is person oriented, shows Jesus’ great compassion for sinners, women, outcasts
Ntuition Thinker: Thomistic Spirituality
• St. Thomas Aquinas
• Deep, contemplative, mystical union with God
• Scholastic method, orderly progression from cause to effect.
• One traces a virtue, fault or theological truth and “walks around it” studying it from every angle. This concludes with suitable resolutions of how one is going to practice the virtue of faith, making the necessary changes in one’s life.
• St. John (INTJ)
• Gave fresh synthesis of existing ideas which formed Christian theology.
• Forerunner of the mystical tradition.
• St. John’s Gospel has great emphasis on the importance of truth and knowledge. He is the most mystical and contemplative of the four Evangelists.
• MJR 02/06
Differing personalities find they are attracted to differing approaches to spirituality. If you know your Meiers/Briggs Personality profile, the following may be helpful to you. The Meiers/Briggs Personality Inventory can be accessed through couselors, community colleges and other sources.
Sensate Judging: Ignatian Spirituality
• Daily gospel meditation
• Carefully organized regimen of striving toward a relationship with god. An orderly well planned agenda with few changes.
• Will look at the historical dimension and see the continuity between what we believe and practice today, and what ahs been believed and practiced for 20 centuries.
• St. James (ISTJ) constantly exhorted the Christian to their Duty of implementing their faith into action in every part of their lives, with conservative law and order. He wanted Christianity to keep some of the basic Mosaic laws.
• St Matthew’s gospel, emphasizes continuity with past by pointing out again and again how Jesus is the fulfilment of the prophecies of the O.T.
Sensate Perceiver: Franciscan Spirituality
• Spontaneous prayer
• An attitude of openness and willingness to go in any direction that the Spirit calls
• Acts of loving service in a spirit of commitment to God’s will as a free, flexible, spontaneous, influential praising and living dialogue with God.
• Meditation on and celebration of the Beauty of Creation.
• St. Peter (ESFP) was a man of action, had responsibility for maintaining peace among the opposing theological schools, trouble-shooter during council of Jerusalem to reconcile Paul and James.
• St. Mark’s Gospel, action oriented, gives only a minimum of the teachings.
Ntuition Feeler: Augustinian Spirituality
• St Agustine of Hippo
• Striving to attain and maintain a deep, personal relationship with God
• Words of Bible are transposed to related to the needs of the individual
• Words of God as a method to discern the path God has willed for them through personal reflection.
• St. Paul (ENFP) envisioning new insights about the kingdom of God.
• Fought off the oppressive shackles of Mosaic law.
• St. Luke’s gospel is person oriented, shows Jesus’ great compassion for sinners, women, outcasts
Ntuition Thinker: Thomistic Spirituality
• St. Thomas Aquinas
• Deep, contemplative, mystical union with God
• Scholastic method, orderly progression from cause to effect.
• One traces a virtue, fault or theological truth and “walks around it” studying it from every angle. This concludes with suitable resolutions of how one is going to practice the virtue of faith, making the necessary changes in one’s life.
• St. John (INTJ)
• Gave fresh synthesis of existing ideas which formed Christian theology.
• Forerunner of the mystical tradition.
• St. John’s Gospel has great emphasis on the importance of truth and knowledge. He is the most mystical and contemplative of the four Evangelists.
• MJR 02/06
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