Henry Burt

PhD 5+1 Post-Doc | Practical Theology, Pastoral Theology

Bio

Henry will be teaching at Flagler College in Saint Augustine, FL for his postdoc year. Himself a liberal arts college product (St. Olaf College ’16), he majored in Psychology and Exercise Science while competing in varsity athletics as a cross country and track runner. Henry directly enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div ’19) after college and took a year in between starting his PhD in Pastoral Theology back at PTS to complete his ordination process as a Lutheran (ELCA) pastor. Henry’s dissertation focuses on how ministers can attend to people struggling with clinical-degree perfectionism. In his free time, he enjoys choral singing, marathon running, crosswords, and bar trivia and karaoke.

Dissertation

The Weariness of the Perfectionistic Self: A Pastoral Theological Approach to Healing
Committee: Dr. Robert Dykstra (chair), Dr. Jay-Paul Hinds, Dr. Jaco Hamman

Publications

Burt, Henry. “Perfectionism and the Threat of Grace: Reimaging Theological Principles for Healing.” Published in Journal of Pastoral Theology 34(1) Nov. 23, 2024. DOI 10.1080/10649867.2024.2406667.

Burt, Henry. “Running as Righteousness: Fitness as a Variety of Religious Experience.” Journal of Pastoral Psychology 72(1) Dec. 27, 2022. DOI:10.1007/s11089-022-01043-x

Co-editor and co-contributor. Mooney, Margarita. The Wounds of Beauty: Seven Dialogues on Art and Education. Providence, RI: Cluny Media. 2022.

Co-editor and co-contributor. Mooney, Margarita. The Love of Learning: Seven Dialogues on the Liberal Arts. Providence, RI: Cluny Media, 2021.

Co-editor. Wang, K. T., Xie, Z. Y., Parsely, A. C., & Johnson, A. M. “Religious Perfectionism Scale among believers of multiple faiths in China: Development and psychometric analysis.” Journal of Religion & Health. Published online February 28, 2019. doi: 10.1007/s10943-019-00784-z

Burt, Henry and Veltri, Carlo O.C. “Maladaptive Correlates of Common Elements of Perfectionism, Rigidity, and Orderliness.” Presentation at American Psychology Association 2016 National Convention.

Henry Burt – CV