Factors shaping biblical literalism: a study among Anglican laity

Village, Andrew

doi:10.1080/13617670500047566

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“…Despite the fact that literalism has been widely used as a religious predictor variable of a wide variety of political and social outcomes (e.g., Barker and Carman 2000;Kellstedt and Smidt 1993;Sherkat and Ellison 1997), very few studies have examined why people hold these views. In a sample of Anglicans, Village (2005) found literalism more likely among those with lower levels of religious or secular education and among those in evangelical Anglican churches, among whom higher education did not weaken literalism. Hoffmann and Bartkowski (2008) explore the reasons behind the higher rate of literalism among women (which Village also noted), finding evangelical women compensate for exclusion from leadership roles by adopting a scheme-biblical literalism-that legitimates their social position.…”

Section: A Generation Of Research On the Religion-environment Connectionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Beyond the Lynn White Thesis: Congregational Effects on Environmental Concern

Djupe¹,

Hunt²

2009

Scientific Study of Religion

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An extensive literature has explored the effects of religion on opinions about environmental protection and action on environmental issues, but has largely concerned itself with the effects of theology as inspired by the Lynn White thesis. However, religion is multifaceted and any complete study should also incorporate the social dimensions of religious experience. In this article, we employ a unique data set to demonstrate the varied informational effects of church membership on environmental attitudes. We find that social sources of information in the church shape the dimensions of religious belief and exert much stronger effects on attitudes on the environment than do doctrinal or religiosity measures.

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Section: A Generation Of Research On the Religion-environment Connectionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Beyond the Lynn White Thesis: Congregational Effects on Environmental Concern

Djupe¹,

Hunt²

2009

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…A number of studies have indicated that biblical literalism may be related to education (Samuel, 2011;Village, 2005c) …”

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Biblical literalism among Anglican clergy: what is the role of psychological type?

Village

2012

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

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The SIFT method of preaching argues that preachers should attend to the different learning styles implied by psychological type theory when preparing and delivering sermons. The evidence to date that supports the theory behind the method has mainly been based on offering readers of known psychological type a range of interpretations specifically created to appeal to particular type preferences. This paper extends these studies by looking at how a more general interpretative strategy (literalism) is related to psychological type preferences. A sample of 1039 recently ordained Anglican clergy in the UK completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales and a 10-item biblical literalism scale. There was a positive association between a preference for sensing and biblical literalism, after controlling for general biblical conservatism and church tradition. The implications for preachers are discussed.

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“…Anglo-catholics can be conservative in terms of ecclesial matters, but have often championed more liberal causes when it comes to doctrines and moral issues. In matters related to the Bible, evangelicals uphold traditional and conservative beliefs, whereas other traditions tend to be less likely to do so (Village, 2005b(Village, , 2007Village & Francis, 2010). Charismatics, like Pentecostals, have traditionally been drawn to evangelical ways of understanding the Bible (Archer, 2001;Hey, 2001;Smith, 1997;Stibbe, 1998), and in the Church of England can be as, or even more, biblically conservative than evangelicals (Village, 2007).…”

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Biblical Conservatism and Psychological Type

Village

2016

J Empir Theol

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The Village Bible Scale, a measure of biblical conservatism, was completed by 3,243 Church of England readers of the Church Times in 2013 alongside a measure of psychological type. Overall, biblical conservatism was higher for men than women, for those under 60 than those over 60, for those with school-level than those with university-level qualifications, for laity than clergy, and higher among evangelicals and charismatics than among those in Anglo-catholic or broad-church traditions. For the sample as a whole, the perceiving process was the only dimension of psychological type to predict biblical conservatism, which was positively correlated with sensing and negatively correlated with intuition. Within church traditions, sensing scores predicted biblical conservatism in Anglo-catholic and broad-church traditions, but not for evangelicals. Thinking function scores were positively correlated with biblical conservatism among evangelicals, but negatively correlated among Anglo-catholics. The findings point to the possible roles of psychological preferences in influencing predispositions for retaining or changing theological convictions.

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Factors shaping biblical literalism: a study among Anglican laity

Cited by 24 publications

References 17 publications

Beyond the Lynn White Thesis: Congregational Effects on Environmental Concern

Beyond the Lynn White Thesis: Congregational Effects on Environmental Concern

Biblical literalism among Anglican clergy: what is the role of psychological type?

Biblical Conservatism and Psychological Type

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