Christopher F J Ro
Biographic Data
| ID | 219650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher F J Ro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher F J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ro |
| SIGNATURE | RO C F J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4519-4841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reading the Incident at the Pool Called Beth-zatha (John 5: (1–16) Through the Lenses of Dominant Introverted Feeling, Dominant Extraverted Feeling, and Dominant Extraverted Thinking: Evaluating Text …
The sensing, intuition, feeling, thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical hermeneutics focused initially on the four distinctive voices of the two perceiving functions (sensing and intuition) and of the two judging functions (thinking and feeling). Subsequent studies have introduced the additional nuance of distinguishing between the introverted and the extraverted expressions of these four functions. The present study brings into focus the distincti…
Reading the incident at the pool called Beth-zatha (John 5: (1–16) Through the Lenses of Introverted Intuition and Extraverted Intuition: Perceiving Text Differently
Working within the sensing, intuition, feeling, thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical hermeneutics, the present study focuses attention on the distinctive voices of dominant extraverted intuition, and dominant introverted intuition. The voice of dominant introverted intuition is further nuanced by taking into account the differential influences of auxiliary extraverted feeling and auxiliary extraverted thinking. These voices are articulated by typ…
Reading the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: (25–37) Through the lenses of introverted intuition and extraverted intuition: Perceiving text differently
Working within the sensing, intuition, feeling, thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical hermeneutics, the present study focuses attention on the distinctive voices of introverted intuition and extraverted intuition, by analysing the way in which two small groups, one comprising dominant introverted intuitive types and the other comprising dominant extraverted intuitive types, explored and reflected on the Lucan narrative of the Good Samaritan, a pas…
Reading the wedding at Cana in Galilee (Jn 2: (1–11) Through the lenses of introverted sensing and introverted intuition: Perceiving text differently
Working within the reader perspective approach to biblical hermeneutics, a series of empirical studies have tested the theory that the readers’ psychological type preference between sensing and intuition (the two Jungian perceiving functions) shapes distinctive readings of biblical narratives. More recently, closer attention has also been given to differentiation within these two perceiving functions of sensing and intuition with regard to their …
Unveiling: An Unexpected Mid-campaign Court Ruling’s Consequences and the Limits of Following the Leader
Strong evidence exists that major campaign-relevant events can have substantial impacts on vote intentions. We know less about how information about such events diffuses and why only some events become salient. We posit that voters often become aware of such exogenous events via a media mechanism. As the salience of the policy issue in the media increases, we argue that, under certain conditions, the media primes the voters to defect from their p…
Is God really good to the upright? Theological educators exploring Psalm 73 through the Jungian lenses of sensing, intuition, feeling and thinking
Psalm 73 is a challenging Psalm in which the Psalmist draws on rich imagery to juxtapose doctrine and experience and to juxtapose the goodness of God with divine retribution. Drawing on data provided by 15 theological educators within the Anglican Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf, this study tests the thesis that the imagery of Psalm 73 will be perceived differently by sensing types and by intuitive types and that the issue ‘Is God really good to t…
The perceiving process and mystical orientation: A study in psychological type theory among 16- to 18-year-old students
This study builds on earlier work to test Ross' thesis that the perceiving process is core to individual differences in religious experience. Data provided by 149 adolescents (16–18 years of age) who completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales alongside the Mystical Orientation Scale supported Ross' thesis. Intuitive types recorded a significantly higher score than sensing types on the index of mystical orientation, while no significant diffe…
Teaching Jung: A Symposium on a New Book in the American Academy of Religion’s “Teaching Religious Studies” Series
My hero, my friend: Exploring Honduran youths’ lived experience of the God–individual relationship
Extensive social science research has focused on God image and God concept through the lens of attachment theory and the parental relationship. While vast theoretical frameworks exist, the authors suggest that more focused phenomenological research would shed light on adolescent lived experience within experiential descriptive language and provides additional cultural insight into how youth understand and experience God. Twenty-three female Hondu…
Religion and the sensation function
The sensation function, a form of perceiving contrasting to the intuitive function in Jung's personality typology, is explored in reference to Van der Hoop's description of its distinct phenomenology: (1) a perceptual field in which details show up clearly but separately; (2) its association with two-sided, subject and object, transcendence. Implications are examined for individuals’ religious orientation when the sensation function is dominant o…
Type patterns among evangelical Protestants in Ontario
Drawn from five southern Ontario evangelical churches and two related church organisations, evangelical women (N = 93) were more J, F, FJ, IJ, SJ, and NJ compared to both Canadian and American women, and more I, SF, and IS than Canadian women. Evangelical men (N = 84) were more S, J, SJ, IS, and included more ISFJs and ISTJs compared to Canadian men, but did not diverge from Consulting Psychologist Press American male norms, nor from Canadian Cat…
New Kadampa Buddhists and Jungian psychological type
Building on previous studies on Canadian Anglicans and Catholics, this study examines and discusses the psychological type profile of 31 adherents to New Kadampa Buddhism. Like Anglicans and Catholics, Buddhists preferred introversion (I). Like Anglicans who preferred intuition (N) and unlike Catholics who preferred sensing (S), Buddhists displayed a preference for intuition (N). Unlike Anglicans and Catholics who both preferred feeling (F), Budd…
The relationship of intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest religious orientations to Jungian psychological type among churchgoers in England and Wales
Employing the New Indices of Religious Orientation (NIRO), this study examines the theory that different religious orientations are related to individual differences in psychological type as developed by Carl Jung and operationalized by the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Data provided by 481 weekly churchgoing Christians who completed the MBTI and the NIRO demonstrated that quest religious orientation scores were higher among intuitives than…
Principles of cultural psychology and the Hindu avatar tradition: A study of Mother Meera through personal narratives
Using principles from cultural psychology, we describe and analyse the senior author's experience of dissonance while visiting Mother Meera, a contemporary Hindu avatara, in order to receive her darshan, the blessing derived from the gaze of a self-realised person. Feelings of love and acceptance were contrasted with the disturbing feelings evinced by the exclusion of emotionally disturbed and physically handicapped individuals. Using the princip…
We care about care: Advice by children in care for children in care, foster parents and child welfare workers about the transition into foster care
Twenty children in foster care, ages 8 to 15 years, provided advice to children in care, foster parents and child welfare workers about ways to assist service delivery during the transition into foster care. The children discussed the importance of tending to experiences such as foster home expectations, the importance of time and information, the new foster/parent–child relationship, coping with stress, the ability to be engaged in decision‐maki…
Exploring Power and Gender Issues Emergent in an Institutional Workshop on Preventing Clergy Sexual Misconduct
Dogmatism, Religion, and Psychological Type
Public diplomacy comes of age
The U.S. special coordinator for public diplomacy explains what this critical foreign policy tool is, how technology has changed it, and the new paradigm that the United States is considering to rebuild its capacity to conduct public diplomacy
Symposium: With the “Process ”Dead: What are the Prospects for Peace
The following is an edited transcript of the twenty‐fourth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. The meeting was held on March 8, 2001, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., moderating
The Relation of Jungian Psychological Type to Religious Attitudes and Practices
A Religious Beliefs and Practices Survey (RBPS) was designed to investigate the many relations, assumed to be obtained by pastoral counselors and spiritual directors, between religious orientation and Jungian psychological type. The RBPS and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator were administered to 195 participants. Most differ- ences were found in respect to intuitive (N) and sensing (S) types: N types empha- sized the undefinability of divinity, whe…
Sacred Chaos: Reflections on God's Shadow and the Dark Self Francoise O'Kane Toronto: Inner City Books, 1994. 139 p
Strategy for a Loss of Faith: Jung's Proposal John P. Dourley Toronto: Inner City Books, 1992. 143 p
The Hare Krishna Character Type: A Study of Sensate Personality (Book)
The Intuitive Function and Religious Orientation
Orientation to religion and the feeling function in Jung's personality typology
La typologie de la personnalite de Jung permet par un moyen anti-reducteur de demontrer l'importance des differences entre les individus en fonction de leur orientation religieuse. Des individus de types psychologiques differents impliquent des besoins et des priorites differents. Ils s'orientent ainsi dans des efforts differents. De plus, les recherches empiriques ont indique la validite de la typologie de Jung. L'article se propose d'analyser l…
We care about care: Advice by children in care for children in care, foster parents and child welfare workers about the transition into foster care
Twenty children in foster care, ages 8 to 15 years, provided advice to children in care, foster parents and child welfare workers about ways to assist service delivery during the transition into foster care. The children discussed the importance of tending to experiences such as foster home expectations, the importance of time and information, the new foster/parent–child relationship, coping with stress, the ability to be engaged in decision‐maki…
Unveiling: An Unexpected Mid-campaign Court Ruling’s Consequences and the Limits of Following the Leader
Strong evidence exists that major campaign-relevant events can have substantial impacts on vote intentions. We know less about how information about such events diffuses and why only some events become salient. We posit that voters often become aware of such exogenous events via a media mechanism. As the salience of the policy issue in the media increases, we argue that, under certain conditions, the media primes the voters to defect from their p…
Dogmatism, Religion, and Psychological Type
The Relation of Jungian Psychological Type to Religious Attitudes and Practices
A Religious Beliefs and Practices Survey (RBPS) was designed to investigate the many relations, assumed to be obtained by pastoral counselors and spiritual directors, between religious orientation and Jungian psychological type. The RBPS and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator were administered to 195 participants. Most differ- ences were found in respect to intuitive (N) and sensing (S) types: N types empha- sized the undefinability of divinity, whe…
The Intuitive Function and Religious Orientation
Public diplomacy comes of age
The U.S. special coordinator for public diplomacy explains what this critical foreign policy tool is, how technology has changed it, and the new paradigm that the United States is considering to rebuild its capacity to conduct public diplomacy
Orientation to religion and the feeling function in Jung's personality typology
La typologie de la personnalite de Jung permet par un moyen anti-reducteur de demontrer l'importance des differences entre les individus en fonction de leur orientation religieuse. Des individus de types psychologiques differents impliquent des besoins et des priorites differents. Ils s'orientent ainsi dans des efforts differents. De plus, les recherches empiriques ont indique la validite de la typologie de Jung. L'article se propose d'analyser l…
The Hare Krishna Character Type: A Study of Sensate Personality (Book)
The Intuitive Function and Religious Orientation
Orientation to religion and the feeling function in Jung's personality typology
La typologie de la personnalite de Jung permet par un moyen anti-reducteur de demontrer l'importance des differences entre les individus en fonction de leur orientation religieuse. Des individus de types psychologiques differents impliquent des besoins et des priorites differents. Ils s'orientent ainsi dans des efforts differents. De plus, les recherches empiriques ont indique la validite de la typologie de Jung. L'article se propose d'analyser l…
Strategy for a Loss of Faith: Jung's Proposal John P. Dourley Toronto: Inner City Books, 1992. 143 p
The Relation of Jungian Psychological Type to Religious Attitudes and Practices
A Religious Beliefs and Practices Survey (RBPS) was designed to investigate the many relations, assumed to be obtained by pastoral counselors and spiritual directors, between religious orientation and Jungian psychological type. The RBPS and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator were administered to 195 participants. Most differ- ences were found in respect to intuitive (N) and sensing (S) types: N types empha- sized the undefinability of divinity, whe…
Sacred Chaos: Reflections on God's Shadow and the Dark Self Francoise O'Kane Toronto: Inner City Books, 1994. 139 p
Symposium: With the “Process ”Dead: What are the Prospects for Peace
The following is an edited transcript of the twenty‐fourth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. The meeting was held on March 8, 2001, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., moderating
Public diplomacy comes of age
The U.S. special coordinator for public diplomacy explains what this critical foreign policy tool is, how technology has changed it, and the new paradigm that the United States is considering to rebuild its capacity to conduct public diplomacy
Dogmatism, Religion, and Psychological Type
Exploring Power and Gender Issues Emergent in an Institutional Workshop on Preventing Clergy Sexual Misconduct
We care about care: Advice by children in care for children in care, foster parents and child welfare workers about the transition into foster care
Twenty children in foster care, ages 8 to 15 years, provided advice to children in care, foster parents and child welfare workers about ways to assist service delivery during the transition into foster care. The children discussed the importance of tending to experiences such as foster home expectations, the importance of time and information, the new foster/parent–child relationship, coping with stress, the ability to be engaged in decision‐maki…
The relationship of intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest religious orientations to Jungian psychological type among churchgoers in England and Wales
Employing the New Indices of Religious Orientation (NIRO), this study examines the theory that different religious orientations are related to individual differences in psychological type as developed by Carl Jung and operationalized by the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Data provided by 481 weekly churchgoing Christians who completed the MBTI and the NIRO demonstrated that quest religious orientation scores were higher among intuitives than…
Principles of cultural psychology and the Hindu avatar tradition: A study of Mother Meera through personal narratives
Using principles from cultural psychology, we describe and analyse the senior author's experience of dissonance while visiting Mother Meera, a contemporary Hindu avatara, in order to receive her darshan, the blessing derived from the gaze of a self-realised person. Feelings of love and acceptance were contrasted with the disturbing feelings evinced by the exclusion of emotionally disturbed and physically handicapped individuals. Using the princip…
My hero, my friend: Exploring Honduran youths’ lived experience of the God–individual relationship
Extensive social science research has focused on God image and God concept through the lens of attachment theory and the parental relationship. While vast theoretical frameworks exist, the authors suggest that more focused phenomenological research would shed light on adolescent lived experience within experiential descriptive language and provides additional cultural insight into how youth understand and experience God. Twenty-three female Hondu…
Religion and the sensation function
The sensation function, a form of perceiving contrasting to the intuitive function in Jung's personality typology, is explored in reference to Van der Hoop's description of its distinct phenomenology: (1) a perceptual field in which details show up clearly but separately; (2) its association with two-sided, subject and object, transcendence. Implications are examined for individuals’ religious orientation when the sensation function is dominant o…
Type patterns among evangelical Protestants in Ontario
Drawn from five southern Ontario evangelical churches and two related church organisations, evangelical women (N = 93) were more J, F, FJ, IJ, SJ, and NJ compared to both Canadian and American women, and more I, SF, and IS than Canadian women. Evangelical men (N = 84) were more S, J, SJ, IS, and included more ISFJs and ISTJs compared to Canadian men, but did not diverge from Consulting Psychologist Press American male norms, nor from Canadian Cat…
New Kadampa Buddhists and Jungian psychological type
Building on previous studies on Canadian Anglicans and Catholics, this study examines and discusses the psychological type profile of 31 adherents to New Kadampa Buddhism. Like Anglicans and Catholics, Buddhists preferred introversion (I). Like Anglicans who preferred intuition (N) and unlike Catholics who preferred sensing (S), Buddhists displayed a preference for intuition (N). Unlike Anglicans and Catholics who both preferred feeling (F), Budd…
The perceiving process and mystical orientation: A study in psychological type theory among 16- to 18-year-old students
This study builds on earlier work to test Ross' thesis that the perceiving process is core to individual differences in religious experience. Data provided by 149 adolescents (16–18 years of age) who completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales alongside the Mystical Orientation Scale supported Ross' thesis. Intuitive types recorded a significantly higher score than sensing types on the index of mystical orientation, while no significant diffe…
Teaching Jung: A Symposium on a New Book in the American Academy of Religion’s “Teaching Religious Studies” Series
Is God really good to the upright? Theological educators exploring Psalm 73 through the Jungian lenses of sensing, intuition, feeling and thinking
Psalm 73 is a challenging Psalm in which the Psalmist draws on rich imagery to juxtapose doctrine and experience and to juxtapose the goodness of God with divine retribution. Drawing on data provided by 15 theological educators within the Anglican Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf, this study tests the thesis that the imagery of Psalm 73 will be perceived differently by sensing types and by intuitive types and that the issue ‘Is God really good to t…
Reading the wedding at Cana in Galilee (Jn 2: (1–11) Through the lenses of introverted sensing and introverted intuition: Perceiving text differently
Working within the reader perspective approach to biblical hermeneutics, a series of empirical studies have tested the theory that the readers’ psychological type preference between sensing and intuition (the two Jungian perceiving functions) shapes distinctive readings of biblical narratives. More recently, closer attention has also been given to differentiation within these two perceiving functions of sensing and intuition with regard to their …
Unveiling: An Unexpected Mid-campaign Court Ruling’s Consequences and the Limits of Following the Leader
Strong evidence exists that major campaign-relevant events can have substantial impacts on vote intentions. We know less about how information about such events diffuses and why only some events become salient. We posit that voters often become aware of such exogenous events via a media mechanism. As the salience of the policy issue in the media increases, we argue that, under certain conditions, the media primes the voters to defect from their p…
Reading the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: (25–37) Through the lenses of introverted intuition and extraverted intuition: Perceiving text differently
Working within the sensing, intuition, feeling, thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical hermeneutics, the present study focuses attention on the distinctive voices of introverted intuition and extraverted intuition, by analysing the way in which two small groups, one comprising dominant introverted intuitive types and the other comprising dominant extraverted intuitive types, explored and reflected on the Lucan narrative of the Good Samaritan, a pas…
Reading the incident at the pool called Beth-zatha (John 5: (1–16) Through the Lenses of Introverted Intuition and Extraverted Intuition: Perceiving Text Differently
Working within the sensing, intuition, feeling, thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical hermeneutics, the present study focuses attention on the distinctive voices of dominant extraverted intuition, and dominant introverted intuition. The voice of dominant introverted intuition is further nuanced by taking into account the differential influences of auxiliary extraverted feeling and auxiliary extraverted thinking. These voices are articulated by typ…
Reading the Incident at the Pool Called Beth-zatha (John 5: (1–16) Through the Lenses of Dominant Introverted Feeling, Dominant Extraverted Feeling, and Dominant Extraverted Thinking: Evaluating Text …
The sensing, intuition, feeling, thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical hermeneutics focused initially on the four distinctive voices of the two perceiving functions (sensing and intuition) and of the two judging functions (thinking and feeling). Subsequent studies have introduced the additional nuance of distinguishing between the introverted and the extraverted expressions of these four functions. The present study brings into focus the distincti…
Psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Theology (10 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Personality (7 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (6 works) · Extraversion and introversion (6 works) · Feeling (6 works)