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What is Jesus’ Myers-Briggs personality profile? Rather to my surprise, it turns out that lots of people have tried to answer this question.<\/p>\nWhat is Jesus’ Myers-Briggs personality profile? Rather to my surprise, it turns out that lots of people have tried to answer this question.<\/p>\n
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI<\/a>) questionnaire was created as a systematic approach to classifying people’s personality based on categories originally proposed by Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Mormon Matters<\/i> website has a completely charming article<\/a> that attempts to analyse Jesus’ personality in terms of the Myers-Briggs types and concludes he’s an INFP – an Introverted, iNtuiting, Feeling, Perceiving type.<\/p>\n If this seems a little flippant for you – pay attention Anglican Vicars: the Sermons That Work<\/i> website has a pre-written sermon<\/a> that discusses Our Lord’s Myers-Briggs type and informs the flock that he’s likely a INFJ – an Introverted, iNtuiting, Feeling, Judging type.<\/p>\n Profiling Jesus seems to have become a minor passtime in some circles. In fact, Yahoo! Answers<\/i> has a thread<\/a> where people were discussing the possibilities. The thread is marked as a ‘Resolved Question’ (!) with the best answer being voted as ENFJ – an Extroverted, iNtuiting, Feeling, Judging type.<\/p>\n Anecdotal evidence! I hear you cry. Fear not, there is some peer-reviewed data on the personality of the Messiah.<\/p>\n The Journal of Psychology and Theology<\/i> published a paper entitled “Students’ perceptions of Jesus’ personality as assessed by Jungian-type inventories” back in 2004. You can read the full text<\/a> online, but the abstract alone is pure joy:<\/p>\n The present study was the first phase of an exploration of college students’ perceptions of the personality of Jesus Christ as assessed by two Jungian-type inventories, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Myers, 1998) and the Keirsey Temperament Sorter II (Keirsey, 1998), which categorize personality along four dimensions: Extraversion\/Introversion, Sensing\/Intuition, Thinking\/Feeling, and Judgment\/Perception. Along with an overall exploration of students’ perceptions, the present study focused on whether students were likely to make self-based attributions in their perceptions of Jesus’ personality. Results indicated that students perceived Jesus to be an Extravert Feeler and made self-based attributions along the Sensing\/Intuitive dimension, with 43% perceiving Him to be an Intuitive-Feeler and 37% perceiving Him to be a Sensing-Judger. Perceptions of Jesus as a Judger or Perceiver were divided, with those placing more importance on modeling Jesus more likely to see Him as a Judger, and those placing less importance on modeling Him perceiving Jesus as a Perceiver.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Since we’re already working on his Myers Briggs profile, I wonder if someone would hazard a guess at how he would score on the… oh stop it already. You’ll only give Dan Brown ideas.<\/p>\n\n