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A descriptive study of a Midwestern sample of Episcopal clergy and seminarians categorized according to various criteria
Pellegrin, Victor Bruce Holker
Pellegrin, Victor Bruce Holker
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The ministerial role presupposes not only professional training and commitment but also the acceptance of an authority structure and ethic to which the clergyman must relate in order to function. He is responsible to the bishop, his congregation, and the doctrine and discipline of his church. His ministry is exercised in a demanding society and he works within the context of fairly close-knit parochial relationships. This suggests that the clergyman is not only committed to a role but will evince inter-personal skills, sensitivity and flexibility. It is probable that those who do not have these skills will not persevere in the ministry. At the same time the clergyman is given opportunity to work outside the context of what has been traditionally required of clergy. This implies that he is independent and capable of creatively using the opportunities afforded him in an essentially non-structured situation. It was the purpose of this study to focus on some of these generalizations, through the measurement of the clergy's personality and cognitive styles. This was done by utilizing the data obtained from the administration of psychological inventories categorizing the samples into relevant groups, by testing the significance of the differences between those groups, by isolating and testing individual scale differences between groups and by bringing together the results into a coherent descriptive picture of the samples under study.
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Ph.D. University of Kansas, Education 1970
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1970-05-31
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University of Kansas
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Episcopal church, Clergy