Reading Psalm 22 Through the Jungian Lenses of Intuition and Feeling: Engaging Passiontide Liturgy with Imagination and with the Heart

Jones, S.H. and Francis, L.J. (2026) Reading Psalm 22 Through the Jungian Lenses of Intuition and Feeling: Engaging Passiontide Liturgy with Imagination and with the Heart. Rural Theology. ISSN 1470-4994

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Abstract

Psalm 22 occupied a central place in the minds of the Gospel writers as they shaped the Passion Narrative and continues to occupy a central place within the liturgies of Holy Week. Drawing on the SIFT reader-perspective approach to biblical hermeneutics, the present study explores the contemporary reading of this Psalm through the Jungian lenses of intuition and feeling by groups of Methodist ministers and Methodist local preachers a week before Holy Week. The conclusion is drawn that leaders of liturgy who prefer thinking need to be aware of the powerful impact of this Psalm on feeling types, for whom the unrelenting mood of darkness may be disturbing.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Published by Taylor and Francis in 2026. This is an author accepted manuscript of a published open access article available at https://doi.org/10.1080/14704994.2026.2630420. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Keywords:	empirical theology biblical hermeneutics Holy Week preaching psychological type theory Passion Narrative
Depositing User:	Ursula Mckenna
Date Deposited:	06 May 2026 10:18
Last Modified:	06 May 2026 10:18
URI:	https://lbro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1330

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