Each week of ours sermon series called Kitchen Table Talks on Relationships I have been making recommendations on my blog for further reading on the topic of this week’s sermon. Here are some annotated recommendations on this week’s topic of personality differences.
Florence Littauer
Christian writer and speaker, Florence Littauer has written a number of helpful books on the subject of personality. All use the classic understanding of the four temperaments that I presented in the sermon.
Your Personality Tree (1989) – The one I have been using
Personality Plus (1992) – Her most famous book on the topic
Personality Plus for Couples (2001)
Personality Plus at Work: How to Work Successfully with Anyone (with Rose Sweet 2001)
Tim LaHaye
Pastor Tim LaHaye also discusses the classic personality types and uses as examples famous characters from the Bible. For some reason LaHaye does not put the types in the same quadrants as Littauer, but his chart of characteristics is excellent.
Transformed Temperaments (Tyndale House, 1971)
David Keirsey
For those who are looking for a more complex contemporary formulation of personality types that correlates to the Myers-Briggs system rather than the classical system, I ran across a very interesting secular book that I think would be helpful. I purchased it for my own further reading and have perused it some already. It contains a quick and easy test too. I like the positive names he gives to his 16 categories.
David Keirsey, Please Understand Me II, (Prometheus Nemesis 1998)