
Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity, Second Edition
An Introduction to Worldview Issues, Philosophical Foundations, and Models of Integration
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- English
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Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity, Second Edition
An Introduction to Worldview Issues, Philosophical Foundations, and Models of Integration
About this book
As disciplines, psychology and theology share an overlapping interest in the nature and functioning of human beings. This book provides an introduction to many of the worldview issues and philosophical foundations that frame the relationship of psychology and theology, includes scholarly reflection on the integration literature, and surveys five paradigms of possible relationships between psychology and Christianity. The book is designed to help readers become aware of the presuppositional backdrops that each of us brings to these issues, and to understand various approaches for relating psychology and Christianity as partly based on presuppositional assumptions. Questions at the end of each chapter are included to help readers evaluate both the material and their own burgeoning approach to integration. This book is ideal as a textbook for students of psychology and other behavioral and social sciences (social work, sociology, theology, counseling, pastoral counseling) at both the graduate and undergraduate level. It is also written for the broader readership of psychologists, counselors, pastors, and others who are interested in integration.
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Table of contents
- TitleâIntegrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity
- Introduction: The Fork in the Road
- 1: The Question of Necessity: Athens and Jerusalem
- 2: Allies or Enemies? Historical Views on Faith and Science
- 3: The Soul of Psychology and the Psyche of the Soul
- 4: Windows on the World: Assumptions and Worldviews
- 5: The Pursuit of Truth: EpistemologyâWays of Knowing
- 6: The Nature of the World: Metaphysics
- 7: The Nature of Humanity: Philosophical Anthropology
- 8: Understanding and Making Models
- 9: Antagonistic Models of Disciplinary Relationship: Enemies
- 10: Intermediate Models of Disciplinary Relationship: Spies, Colonialists, and Neutral Parties
- 11: Integrative Models of Disciplinary Relationship: Allies
- 12: Truth and the Two Books
- 13: The Road Ahead
- Appendix 1: Stories of Integration
- Appendix 2: Suggested Assignments
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Scripture Index
- About the Author