InterVarsity Press Announces Release
of Its First Enneagram Resource
Krista Clayton| 630.734.4013 | kclayton@ivpress.com
WESTMONT, IL—The Enneagram, a personality typing system known for its uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, has seen a spike in popularity in recent years. InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce the October 2016 release of its first Enneagram resource, The Road Back to You, by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile.
After years of team-teaching about the Enneagram and field-testing their content, Cron and Stabile now introduce the material to a wider audience. Stabile said, “About a year ago on an otherwise predictable Sunday afternoon I answered a call from Ian. As it happens he is one of my top-ten favorite authors. He said without hesitation, ‘Let’s write an Enneagram book.’ I’ve rarely felt so honored. It has been my joy to contribute to the Enneagram primer.” Cron said, “No other teacher has helped me understand and apply the Enneagram from a Christian perspective better than my coauthor Suzanne Stabile. For the most part, what I know about the Enneagram I learned from her.”
The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery will offer a unique, narrative-based approach to the Enneagram that is specifically designed to help readers do the work of Christian growth and spiritual formation. “Some people steer clear of personal inventory tests. They don’t want to be put in a box,” said Cron and Stabile. “But the Enneagram has more to do with getting us out of the boxes we didn’t know we were in.”
Cron, author of Chasing Francis, is a popular author, speaker, counselor, musician and Episcopal priest. Known for his transparency and spiritual insightfulness, as well as his humor, Ian has presented at conferences, churches, seminaries, retreats and universities around the world. He is curator of the Conversations on Courage and Faith program at Christ Church in Greenwich, Connecticut, and sits on the Board of Visitors at Duke Divinity School.
Stabile is an internationally recognized Enneagram master and has conducted more than five hundred Enneagram workshops. She has spoken to college audiences and hundreds of churches across America. Her DVD curriculum for study groups, The Enneagram Journey, was released in October 2014 and has been used by an estimated 1,100 individuals.
Cindy Bunch, IVP’s editorial director, said, “Ian Cron’s take on the Enneagram is full of every bit of the creative writing that one would expect from the author of Chasing Francis with the invaluable addition of Suzanne Stabile’s expertise through her years of teaching and training over five hundred Enneagram seminars across the country. It is an ideal writing collaboration.”
Founded in 1947 as an extension of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, InterVarsity Press serves those in the university, the church and the world by publishing thoughtful Christian books that equip and encourage people to follow Jesus as Savior and Lord in all of life. For more information, visit ivpress.com.