Pope Benedict XIV Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Pope Benedict XIV? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Pope Benedict XIV from Christianity The Popes and what is the personality traits.
ESTP (3w4)
Pope Benedict XIV personality type is ESTP, or Extraverted, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving with an idealistic bent. (ESFP, or Intuitive, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving might be more accurate, but ESTP is the most popular.)
Benedict’s background is in the liberal Catholic tradition, and he was trained in the Scholastic tradition of the Jesuit order. So he has a thinker’s mind, but he also is quite passionate and concerned about the “more important” things in life.
The name Benedict is actually derived from Benedictus, which means happy. His temperament is an unusual mix of faith and faithlessness. He has faith in the Catholic faith, but doesn’t necessarily believe in all of its doctrines. He has a healthy skepticism about the dogmas of the Church. He does believe in a transcendent God who is a loving father, who cares for a flawed humanity. But he also has a healthy dose of doubt about the Church’s teachings on how to go about getting to heaven.
Benedict’s approach to life is holistic and holistic only. In his mind, everything should be considered from a holistic point of view.
Pope Benedict XIV (31 March 1675 – 3 May 1758), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was head of the Catholic Church from 17 August 1740 to his death in 1758.
Perhaps one of the best scholars to sit on the papal throne, yet often overlooked, he promoted scientific learning, the baroque arts, reinvigoration of Thomism, and the study of the human form.
A scholar, he created the Sacred and Profane Museums, now part of the present Vatican Museum. Benedict XIV, to an extent can be considered a polymath due to his numerous studies of ancient literature, the publishing of ecclesiastical books and documents, his interest in the study of the human body, and his devotion to art and theology.
Horace Walpole described him as "loved by papists, esteemed by Protestants, a priest without insolence or interest, a prince without favorites, a pope without nepotism, an author without vanity, a man whom neither intellect nor power could corrupt" (Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment, p. 370.)
