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Title: Four Spiritualities: Expressions of Self, Expressions of Spirit: A Psychology of Contemporary Spiritual Choice by Peter Tufts Richardson ISBN: 0-89106-083-9 Publisher: Davies-Black Pub Pub. Date: June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Review of Four Spiritualities by Richardson
Comment: Review of Four Spiritualities
This book was my first introduction to the idea that one's personality could be a strong indicator of one's preferred spiritual path. I found it fascinating and true to my own experience: I am the kind of person described by my Myers-Briggs type and I do have the spiritual preferences of my associated path in Four Spiritualities.
The book is thorough, well organized, and even-handed. It begins with an introduction of the MBTI which is necessarily generic rather than detailed, but it's complete, even-handed, and pretty clear, no small tasks. Richardson associates the two central letters of the MBTI type with preferred path, matching NT with the path of Unity, SF with Devotion, ST with Works, and NF with Harmony.
Chapters 2 and 3 seem like digressions at first, but provide important background into the development of one's personality and the motivations and preparations which put us on a spiritual path.
Chapters 4 through 7 present the four paths - Unity, Devotion, Works, and Harmony. They include more about the type and its characteristics and clarify the nature of the associated path. Richardson even notes the approximate percentage of the population in each type and comments on the concentration of certain types in certain religious careers. His own preferences do not show here and his breadth of coverage, examples, mentors, and references are very satisfying. The chapters have some repeated chunks, but these places easily bear repeating.
Chapter 8 departs some from the more scholarly tone of the rest of the book, pulling in less familiar references to native spirituality, new age philosophy, Celtic traditions, and even four Christian orientations derived by an Episcopal priest from four genres of literature identified by a critic. It is in this chapter and especially the final chapter, 9, that Richardson's own passions begin to show and he offers advice and reflections for society and the future.
The book concludes with footnotes from the chapters; lists of resources for more study of psychological type, scriptures, and religious traditions; a list of credits; and a substantial index.
This book is a slow read because the subject matter is dense and complex and because Richardson's writing style is rather scholarly in places (this is the only reason for 4 stars rather than 5). Do not think, though, that having read this review you can skip the book. It is rich and full and well worth the effort, for time after time the measured unpacking of a sentence brings that delicious Aha!, that Yes!
Rating: 5
Summary: A library in one guidebook, a companion for our travels
Comment: This book tells you not only how you will use this book, it also shines some lights on the issues that seem to haunt you, gives directions to paths you seem to want to travel; It tells you how to work, what to listen to and where to improve your life, your self, and, by doing that, that of others. The book shows how different the paths we travel on are and at the same time how they're connected. The extensive knowledge of the writer of the great religious and filosophical teachings and books has been put into what i think an accurate and simple format. He shows how the great religions are different and the same, just as we people are all different and the same. The only way forward is to travel in each others company and tolerate - or accept, or use or acknowledge - the burden of differences. Everybody will find something about him- or herself in this book. For me, it showed that the best tale is the tale of your own life. It will develop itself when you live it and this book is one of the rare guidebooks. Reading it - even in bits and pieces - will be a joy and a milestone.
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Title: Who We Are Is How We Pray: Matching Personality and Spirituality by Charles J. Keating ISBN: 0896223213 Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications Pub. Date: March, 1987 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Prayer and Temperament: Different Prayer Forms for Different Personality Types by Chester P. Michael, Marie C. Norrisey ISBN: 0940136023 Publisher: Open Door Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Soultypes : Finding the Spiritual Path That is Right for You by Sandra Krebs Hirsh, Jane A.G. Kise ISBN: 0786882891 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 07 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Knowing Me Knowing God: Exploring Your Spirituality With Myers-Briggs by Malcolm Goldsmith ISBN: 068701705X Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: From Image to Likeness: A Jungian Path in the Gospel Journey by W. Harold Grant, Magdala Thompson, Thomas E. Clarke, Mary M. Thompson, Harold Grant ISBN: 0809125528 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: December, 1983 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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