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Researchers (including IR/IE), Faith Communities and Judicatories, Faculty Tidy Studios Researchers (including IR/IE), Faith Communities and Judicatories, Faculty Tidy Studios

Virtues as Mediators of the Associations between Religious/Spiritual Commitment and Well-Being

Longitudinal study of 580 seminarians tests whether virtues mediate the religious/spiritual commitment–well-being link, finding cross-sectional but not longitudinal mediation through blessedness and forgiveness.

KEYWORDS: construct validity; factor analysis; religiousness; virtues; well-being

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Researchers (including IR/IE), Faculty, Formation Directors/Student Life Staff Tidy Studios Researchers (including IR/IE), Faculty, Formation Directors/Student Life Staff Tidy Studios

Embodied Virtue: A Model of Virtuous Caring for Practical Theology and Christian Formation

Practical theology article proposing a virtue-based model of caring and Christian formation grounded in moral psychology and Wesleyan thought.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; generative care virtues of generative care; journal article; moral likeness model of spiritual maturity; practical theology; Wesley's affectional moral psychology

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Researchers (including IR/IE), Spiritual Directors, Educational Assessment and Accreditation Liaison Officers Tidy Studios Researchers (including IR/IE), Spiritual Directors, Educational Assessment and Accreditation Liaison Officers Tidy Studios

Ecumenical and Traditioned Measurement: Measuring Christian Maturation across Distinct Traditions of Christian Spirituality

Article exploring the feasibility of an ecumenical measure of Christian maturation by drawing on five distinct traditions (African American, Anglican, Benedictine, Pentecostal, Reformed) and four navigation strategies.

KEYWORDS: ecumenical spirituality; measurement; psychology of religion/spirituality; spiritual assessment; spiritual formation

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Faculty, Researchers (including IR/IE), Educational Assessment and Accreditation Liaison Officers Tidy Studios Faculty, Researchers (including IR/IE), Educational Assessment and Accreditation Liaison Officers Tidy Studios

A Reflective Guide to Effective Evaluation for Theological Schools

ATS Commission on Accrediting guide presenting a principle-based, practice-oriented framework for institutional and educational evaluation in theological schools.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; ATS Standards of Accreditation (2020); Checklist for Effective Assessment; educational effectiveness; evaluation and assessment; institutional planning; student learning; student learning outcomes; theological schools

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Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Institutional Senior Leaders, Researchers (including IR/IE), Students/Seminarians, Spiritual Directors, Other Institutional Administration Tidy Studios Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Institutional Senior Leaders, Researchers (including IR/IE), Students/Seminarians, Spiritual Directors, Other Institutional Administration Tidy Studios

The Experience of Financial Well-Being, Shame, and Mental Health Outcomes in Seminary Students

DESCRIPTION: Financial hardship can affect seminary students in ways that extend beyond material strain. Drawing on a sample of 189 graduate students from ATS-accredited seminaries, this study examines relationships among financial well-being, shame, depression, anxiety, and spiritual well-being. The findings show that lower financial well-being was associated with greater shame, which in turn mediated relationships between financial distress and depression, anxiety, and spiritual well-being. The authors suggest that shame may be an important mechanism for understanding the broader psychological and spiritual effects of financial hardship and student debt among seminarians.

KEYWORDS: anxiety; depression; financial distress; financial well-being; mental health; seminary students; shame; spiritual well-being; student debt; student well-being

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Researchers (including IR/IE), Institutional Senior Leaders, Field Education / Contextual Ed Supervisors Tidy Studios Researchers (including IR/IE), Institutional Senior Leaders, Field Education / Contextual Ed Supervisors Tidy Studios

Relational Spirituality Profiles and Flourishing among Emerging Religious Leaders

Latent profile analysis of 580 emerging religious leaders identifies an "Integrated" profile with balanced dwelling and seeking, displaying the greatest flourishing among five relational spirituality subgroups.

KEYWORDS: flourishing; latent profile analysis; relational spirituality; well-being

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Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Researchers (including IR/IE), Spiritual Directors Tidy Studios Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Researchers (including IR/IE), Spiritual Directors Tidy Studios

Measuring the Spiritual, Character, and Moral Formation of Seminarians: In Search of a Meta-Theory of Spiritual Change

Conceptual article proposing a meta-theory of positive spiritual change to undergird the development of a generalizable, reliable measurement tool for spiritual, character, and moral formation in seminarians.

KEYWORDS: psychology of religion; spiritual assessment; spiritual formation; spirituality

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Faculty, Researchers (including IR/IE), Educational Assessment and Accreditation Liaison Officers Tidy Studios Faculty, Researchers (including IR/IE), Educational Assessment and Accreditation Liaison Officers Tidy Studios

An Assessment Workbook for Roman Catholic Seminaries

A two-part resource by NCEA and ATS (2018) comprising a workbook with case studies designed to help Roman Catholic seminaries evaluate student learning and degree program effectiveness.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; ATS Standards of Accreditation (2012); Catholicism; degree program effectiveness; educational assessment; priestly formation; seminary curriculum; student learning outcomes; workbook resource; case study

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Researchers (including IR/IE), Spiritual Directors, Faculty Tidy Studios Researchers (including IR/IE), Spiritual Directors, Faculty Tidy Studios

Re-Engaging the Wesleyan-Holiness Tradition in Response to Diversification and Fragmentation in Theological Education

Case study of Nazarene Theological Seminary's Wesleyan-Holiness approach to spiritual formation curriculum and assessment amid diversification and fragmentation of theological learning platforms and contexts.

KEYWORDS: assessment; curriculum; diversification; spiritual formation; Wesleyan-Holiness

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