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The author's focus in Personality, Religion, and Leadership ‘is not to provide an easy introduction to psychological type theory for religious leaders, but to offer a sustained and systematic analysis’ through the application and description of John Beebe's eight-function, eight-archetype model of personality (p. 2). Thus, it is a textbook that gives a detailed overview of type theory. The authors make clear the important distinction between Beebe's approach and the common use of type theory as expressed through the ‘four psychological functions: the two perceiving functions (sensing and intuition) and the two judging functions (feeling and thinking)’, noting that a ‘concentration just on the functions misses the subtlety of the way in which each function is nuanced differently in the two orientations (introversion and extraversion)’ (p. 2). Hence, they follow Beebe's eight-function orientation rather than the four-function model, adding that ‘a distinctive feature of our approach is that we have chosen to link the hierarchy of the eight functions … with the powerful imagery of Jungian archetypes’ (p. 3), making use of John Beebe's ‘marriage of Jung's most