At the Wheaton Theology Conference, N. T. Wright mentioned how much harder it is to get a PhD in New Testament if you’re an ENFP than if you’re an ISTJ.
In case you were wondering about the pathologies lying behind Storied Theology, here you go:
INTJ
August 6, 2010 in Culture with 18 Comments
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This is hilarious! I’ve taken the Myers-Briggs inventory twice, once an INTJ and once an ISTJ. (I guess that’s called IXTJ.) It looks like I’ll be able not only to get into seminary but also to use my theological erudition to build a dominion of devoted followers who rally around my caricatures of “the enemy” and my fanciful inflation of minor doctrines into tests of orthodoxy! Mwah-ha-ha!
Hmm… I’m an ENFJ; I think that means that I want to be done with seminary, hang out with people, and get on being called a ‘real pastor’ and get slightly less pathetic pay for doing what I’ve already been doing for more than a decade.
No minions for me.
I’m an INTJ also, and my wife tends to agree with the test on that one. I read once that INTJs are mastermind types so when I win board games I like to steeple my fingers, arch my eyebrows, and say “Mastermind.”
The whole “Mastermind” thing is totally creepy. You’ve biased me against INTJs forever, dear.
I am an ENFP! Will you take that into consideration before grading from now on??
Oh, I’ll remember alright…
ISFJ… does that mean I just want to use all this book-learning to tell people it’ll all be ok?
That is so me!
INFP (borderline ‘I’) – Work in theological ethics
I want to give you all a hug just before I close and lock the door on your asylum cell…
INFJ – which means that while you tell me your plans to take over the world, I’ll probably sit and nod sympathetically.
Okay, I rarely actually laugh out loud at a post, but this one got me. (Also, I am thrilled that our little volley of messages has borne fruit, Daniel.)
One of the problems with this, however, is (btw did you know that INTJs like to pick at little imperfections? It shows that they know how things *really* are) that the Want Ad makes it sound like this person is going to lead an army. That is the ENTJ, the “field marshall.” They, like INTJs, know exactly how everything should be, but they actually rally the troops to do it and get behind this great idea. INTJs just figure out how things should be, and then try to bend the world to their will by convincing everyone they are right. And most INTJs aren’t really very hard workers (again the “work 24-7″ sounds like an ENTJ)–unless you count thinking as work, which we do, and then we do work 24/7.
They also like paradigms that give them a schema for understanding and controlling things. (Thus the last picture is probably the most accurate.) But they themselves hate to be put in a box or controlled in any way. (*ahem* to my ex-whatever friends.)
From “MType:
The Strategist (INTJ)
In general, INTJs are strong individualists who seek new angles or novel ways of looking at things. They enjoy coming to new understandings. They are insightful and mentally quick; however, this mental quickness may not always be outwardly apparent to others, since they keep a great deal to themselves. They are very determined people who trust their vision of the possibilities, regardless of what others think. They may even be considered the most independent of all of the sixteen personality types. INTJs are at their best in quietly, and firmly, developing their ideas, theories, and principles.
I will be dropping out of Fuller Seminary. I am an ENFP to the ‘t’. I mean reading the description of that personality is reading my biography. Sorta depressing!!
Fellow INTJ here. Ah yes, now I much better understand something an ex-girlfriend said to me many years ago in a follow-up conversation we had after we broke up.
“It just seems like you don’t really care.”
I sat there, perplexed. Perplexed because she was right. I didn’t.
I then made a concerted effort to try and feel guilty, but that didn’t work either. Now I know it’s because I’m a megalomaniac…
…Nope, still don’t feel anything.
weird, I don’t know what to think. I’m an INTJ. Perhaps I need to get one of those posters.
INTJ have one huge weakness : People.
Interacting, understanding and empathizing with people.
They get the illusion that they can understand people because of the highly elaborate, self-supporting conceptualizations of how people are, but they are greatly mistaken.
Yeah they are better off alone, for both their own well being and the well being of those who they may come in contact with.
Because of their*
Just tried this. Apparently I’m am INTJ as well. I guess I’m not surprised.