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Assessing Student Formation: A New Set of Core Assessment Tools
The definitive introduction to the Seminary Formation Assessment (SFA)—a 50-item suite of assessments measuring spiritual dwelling, seeking, struggle, and emotion regulation in seminarians.
KEYWORDS: open access / free access; assessment instrument; Colloquy article; emotion regulation; psychometrics; Relational Spirituality Model (RSM); Seminary Formation Assessment (SFA); seminary students; sense of community; spiritual dwelling; spiritual formation; spiritual seeking; theological education; training resources; virtues
Spiritual Formation among Students at Christian Seminaries: Mature Alterity, Symptoms, and Well-Being
Person-centered analysis using the Relational Spirituality Model (RSM) identifies four seminary student subgroups, with "regulated seekers" showing mature alterity, flourishing, and stable balanced spirituality over time.
KEYWORDS: open access / free access; flourishing; mature alterity; mixture modeling; relational spirituality; spiritual formation
Clergy Formation at Academy for Jewish Religion
An overview of the approach to clergy formation at the Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR), detailing its four core realms and methods for assessment.
KEYWORDS: open access / free access; ATS Student Data and Resources Consultation (2025); case study; clergy formation; online / distance / distributed modality; pluralist Jewish context; slide deck; spiritual development; theological education
Student Perspectives on Spiritual Formation at a Jewish Pluralistic Seminary: A Qualitative Study
Reflexive thematic analysis of 36 students at a Jewish pluralistic seminary identifies on-campus, off-campus, and non-seminary contexts of spiritual formation and uniquely Jewish formation requests.
KEYWORDS: Judaism; qualitative research; seminary; spiritual formation; virtue
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality in Jewish Contexts: A Synthetic Review
Synthetic review of psychology of religion and spirituality in Jewish contexts, using the Relational Spirituality Model (RSM) to organize prior research and outline future directions for empirical study.
KEYWORDS: open access / free access; empirical research; God attachment; Judaism; psychology of religion; relational spirituality; spirituality