CTI holds Two-Week Summer School in June 2023
CTI held a two-week summer school on cross-training in psychological science for Christian Theology in June 2023 for participants in its inquiry on Thriving in Diverse Contexts.
The two-year program, made possible through generous funding from the John Templeton Foundation, consists of cross-training in psychological science for scholars of Christian theology.
Ten scholars joined together in an intensive training program that provided them with foundational familiarity and basic expertise in a wide range of topics central to the most influential work in psychological science.
The central aims were to provide thorough introductory psychological science training for our scholars in an environment that conveyed our respect for them as scholars and our sense of the importance of their planned work in interdisciplinary theology and philosophy engaging psychological science.
These scholars traveled from across the United States and around the world to take part in an opening summer school led by Michael Spezio, the inquiry's principal Investigator, along with Brick Johnstone, Andrew Davison, Clifford Anderson, and Joshua Mauldin.
Photo caption: Seated, left to right: Clifford Anderson, Elijah Baloyi, Michael DeJonge, Barbara McClure, Nadia Marais; Standing, left to right: Michael Spezio, Michelle Panchuk, Marion Grau, Sheryl Overmyer, Andrew Davison, Jessica Coblentz, Brick Johnstone, Andrew Shepherd, Michael Bräutigam, Joshua Mauldin
The training program covered most topical areas of high relevance to influential, empirically grounded models in psychological science. These areas are foundational to more applied areas in psychological science, such as Psychology of Religion, Post-Traumatic Stress and Recovery, Autonomy and Self-Determination, Moral Psychology, Intergroup Reconciliation, Creativity & Insight, Music Cognition & Aesthetic Judgment, Wellbeing, and Thriving/Flourishing.
The grounding provided by the summer school prepared the scholars for work in applied areas in Psychological Science that we will engage in future training sessions.
The ten scholars in the program have now returned to their home institutions, where they will collaborate for remote study modules before returning to Princeton for residential workshops in fall 2024 and spring 2025.