A First Roman Catholic Priest

1892 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Catholic Priest ◽  
Roman Catholic Priest

Comparative MMPI-2 Norms between Free and United Methodist, Catholic Priest, Episcopal, and Presbyterian Ministry Candidates

2021 ◽  
pp. 009164712110494
Author(s):  
Amanda Edwards-Stewart ◽  
Tim Hoyt ◽  
Sam Rennebohm ◽  
Fiona B. Kurtz ◽  
John S. Charleson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Methodist ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Catholic Priests ◽  
Catholic Priest ◽  
Free Methodist ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Roman Catholic Priest

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) is often utilized to assess the suitability of ordination candidates by a religious organization. Published MMPI-2 scale scores for Roman Catholic priest, Episcopal, Presbyterians, and United Methodist ministry samples exist. However, previous research has not provided MMPI-2 scale scores for Free Methodist ordination candidates and has not provided a statistical comparison of scale scores between religious groups. The this study reports on MMPI-2 scale scores for Free Methodist ordination candidates and compares this group’s scores to Roman Catholic priests, Episcopal and Presbyterian ordination candidates, and a United Methodist sample. We found statistically significant differences between Free Methodist and Catholic Priests, Episcopal, Presbyterian ordination candidates on MMPI-2 Hs, Pd, Pt, and Sc scales and L, Pd, Mf, Pa, Pt, Sc, and Ma differences between Free and United Methodist groups. These results seem to indicate that Free Methodist candidates have fewer non-organic health concerns, less obsessive thoughts, positive social relationships, and more readily submit to authority when contracted with other comparative ordination candidates or ministry sample.

Learning from a Medieval Hindu Theologian’s Manual of Daily Worship: A Counter-Intuitive Relevance

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-63
Author(s):  
Francis X. Clooney
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Liturgical Theology ◽  
Hindu Tradition ◽  
Catholic Priest ◽  
Roman Catholic Priest

The Manual of Daily Worship (Nityagrantham) of Rāmānuja (1017–1137) is a work of applied, liturgical theology, in a major Hindu tradition. It describes the daily worship of an advanced devotee, melding together purifications, ritual offerings, recitation of mantras, meditations, and acts of surrender to God. As such, it richly fills out the spiritual and intellectual profile of Rāmānuja as an exemplar of integral spiritual, intellectual, and practical religion. This essay argues that he thus has much to offer to our reflection on religions and religions across Asia, and more particularly, offers fruitful insights and challenges regarding how to understand, study, and practice religion even now. The author is an American Roman Catholic priest and a Jesuit, who himself has learned deeply from Hinduism and from Rāmānuja’s tradition over the decades.

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