Ethical, dedicated and reliable, they are motivated by a desire to live the right way, improve the world, and avoid fault and blame. Each type or number has a distinct way of seeing the world and an underlying motivation that powerfully influences how that type thinks, feels and behaves. The Enneagram teaches that there are nine different personality styles in the world, one of which we naturally gravitate toward and adopt in childhood to cope and feel safe. The point of it is self-understanding and growing beyond the self-defeating dimensions of our personality, as well as improving relationships and growing in compassion for others. The purpose of the Enneagram is to develop self-knowledge and learn how to recognize and dis-identify with the parts of our personalities that limit us so we can be reunited with our truest and best selves, that “pure diamond, blazing with the invisible light of heaven,” as Thomas Merton said.
You need a personality or you won’t get asked to prom. Not only is this not possible, it would be a bad idea. (Oct.The goal of understanding your Enneagram “type” or “number”-the terms are used interchangeably in this book-is not to delete and replace your personality with a new one. Cron and Stabile’s approach is likely to appeal particularly to thoughtful younger Christians. There isn’t much literature on the Enneagram, with little for curious evangelical Christians. The authors counsel the use of the system, which includes nine distinct personality types, for self-knowledge: “The objective of it is self-understanding.” It is also a useful tool for ministers and managers and anyone who has to work with diverse personalities, which will make the book appropriate for seminary study.
As one of a number of ways of thinking about personality, it is a helpful spiritual analogue to Myers-Briggs typology.
The Enneagram also counsels humility and acknowledges its own limits (“ is not infallible or inerrant,” writes Cron and Stabile)-a welcome modesty in religious understanding today. The beauty of the Enneagram is its charity: the system clearly names the flaws as well as the virtues of each personality type. Cron ( Chasing Francis), an Episcopal priest, brings his witty, energetic voice to this collaboration with Stabile, a retreat director and expert on the Enneagram-a system of personality typology with roots in Christian and Islamic mysticism.
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