ABSTRACT
This chapter uncovers the strongest related predictors of personal theology from each arena of adolescent life to arrive at the strongest combination of predictors of each facet of young adult personal theology. It explores basic differences in the four facets of personal theology due to demographic background, adolescent social factors and adolescent psychological dispositions and attitudes. Young adults expressed widely varied combinations of worldview, theodicy, life purpose and ultimate values. The chapter looks at quantitative relationships between patterns of beliefs or values and their social and developmental precedents. One demographic factor that affected young adults' personal theologies was the social class of the community (SCC) in which they lived as teenagers. This relationship between educational quality and social class, side by side with the modest but frequent influence of family financial capital, suggests that the financial and social capital accessed and used by a community and family was a significant force shaping these young adults' personal theologies.
