You are a
Curator
You do safekeeping of values, beliefs and thoughts to make meaning
Curators are Reflective believers
Reflectives are rational individuals believers. They are always seeking personal understanding and interpretation.
Core Quality
Curators are sifting through the assumptions in faith communities. They are collecting those values, beliefs, notions and thoughts that are helpful in making meaning, for safekeeping.
Purpose and Goal
Curators grow by making up their own minds. They are keepers or custodians of what is proper in rational in the faith community. Alongside their questioning of the assumptions functioning in faith communities, they also question the authority structures. They have a growing need to make up their own mind.
Curators look after what they believe and how they live. They know their logical thinking will help them figure out what to do next. The principles they have collected throughout the years guide them.
Curators are able to apply their own analytical and practical problem-solving skills to make meaning of their world.
Faith Drivers
What are the next steps for Curators on their journey of faith?
Curators are building their own library of ideas, beliefs, notions and thoughts that help them to get meaning out of life and faith. They use common sense and personal experience to evaluate the usefulness of new ideas. They keep those that help and discard the rest.
Curators could enjoy life-focused learning events. They are gathering info to help them connect what they believe, and their values to everyday life. They find guidelines on flourishing embedded in principles and theory helpful.
Where do you go from here?
Material to guide you on your way
Curators are Reflective believers
Other roles in your faith style:
Core Quality
Teachers reinterpret faith for themselves through reasoning and reflecting.
Purpose and Goal
Teachers examine all truths rationally. Their faith is built on reasoning and reflecting. They trust their own interpretation of faith to make balanced decisions. For them, truth should always be intellectually sound and personal.
Core Quality
Guardians protect and defend their faith by relying on respectful discussions.
Purpose and Goal
Guardians seek to protect or defend faith. They do this by relying on respectful discussions. The purpose of this exchange of ideas is to look at all sides of an issue. Guardians do this because they deeply believe one can only know the truth after reflecting on all the different sides of it.
Core Quality
Servants create social order by figuring out the underlying principles that will make a society stable.
Purpose and Goal
Servants are devoted and helpful supporters. They are changing the world by creating social order through underlying rules and duties. They spend time figuring out the underlying principles that will make a society stable. They seek the regulations governing faithful conduct.
Core Quality
Strivers seek to fulfil their faith goals through making explicit choices regarding ideology and lifestyle.
Purpose and Goal
Strivers attempt to “translate” who they are into a gift for the world. They make an effort to accomplish as many of their faith goals as possible. They try to seek God’s guidance in the midst of all their daily activities. From the outside, Strivers can look like spiritual overachievers. This happens because they are willing to sacrifice so much because of their firmly held personal values and ideas.
Core Quality
Assessors are constantly evaluating the quality of their own faith against their own set of guidelines, personal experience and common sense.
Purpose and Goal
Assessors are constantly evaluating their own quality of faith. They rate themselves against their own sets of guidelines. Their personally developed belief system helps them discern how to live.
Core Quality
Caregivers’ internalisation of authority opens the way for reflective self-awareness commitments in relationships.
Purpose and Goal
Caregivers are forming their own theory of how people should behave towards each other. This is built on general requirements, guidelines or principles of relationships. Even though Caregivers will consider a wide range of viewpoints, they trust their own perspective. They interact with people out of their personal understanding of relationships.
Core Quality
Devotees adopt religious habits and practices that express their unique take on faith.
Purpose and Goal
Devotees choose who to follow based on how much like-mindedness they feel with them. They only adopt prescribed religious actions and practices that represent their worldview.