Christianity, at its heart, is a therapeutic faith—a theocentric form of soul care.God's therapeutic agenda begins in the perfect triune communion of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit who created human beings to flourish by participating in his glory. But they are now alienated from God and subject to different forms of psychopathology—sin, suffering, and biopsychosocial damage. So God intervened in Jesus Christ to manifest even greater glory. Through union with his incarnation, life, death, resurrection, and exaltation, Jesus has overcome the soul-disordering consequences of sin and now is bringing about a new creation by the Holy Spirit and faith. The church as the body of Christ is where God's therapy is put into action—where people can learn to flourish in communion with God and each other as God originally intended.Told in this way, the deep connection between Christianity and psychology becomes evident. In God and Soul Care—a companion to his Foundations for Soul Care—Eric L. Johnson explores the riches of Christian theology from the heights of the Trinity to the mysteries of eschatology, uncovering ample resources for engaging in dialogue with modern psychology. Each chapter not only serves as an overview of a key doctrine but also highlights its therapeutic implications for Christian counseling and psychology.A groundbreaking achievement in the synthesis of theology and psychology, God and Soul Care is an indispensable resource for students, scholars, pastors, and clinicians.
Зміст
Preface
Part I: The Doxological/Therapeutic Agenda of the Trinity
1. The Orbit of the Human Soul
2. The Glorious Missions of the Trinity
3. The Word of the Son
4. The Gift of the Holy Spirit
5. The Story of Glory
Part II: The Goodness of God and the Human Creation
6. The Beauty of God and Human Flourishing
7. The Way It?s Supposed to Be
Part III: The Divine Diagnosis
8. Sin and Psychopathology
9. Suffering and Psychopathology
10. Biopsychosocial Damage and Psychopathology
11. The Breadth of Psychopathology
Part IV: The Divine Intervention
12. The Life of Christ and the Perfection of Humanity
13. The Death of Christ and the End of Psychopathology
14. The Resurrection of Christ and the Beginning of a New Creation
15. The Exaltation of Christ and the Spread of the New Creation
Part V: The Divine Therapy
16. The Embrace of the Body of Christ
17. The Old-New Division of the Christian
18. Redemptive Differentiation
19. Redemptive Integration
Part VI: The Divine Cure
20. The End Is Now and Is to Come
Про автора
Eric L. Johnson (Ph D, Michigan State University) trained as an academic psychologist and is Lawrence and Charlotte Hoover Professor of Pastoral Care at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of Foundations for Soul Care and the coeditor of God Under Fire and Christianity and Psychology: Four Views. An associate editor of the Journal of Psychology and Theology, he is the director of the Society for Christian Psychology and the Institute for Christian Psychology.
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