Can the phenomena of the human mind be separated from the practices of spiritual formation? Research into the nature of moral and spiritual change has revived in recent years in both the worlds of psychology and theology. Rooted in a year-long discussion held by Biola University's Center for Christian Thought (CCT), this volume bridges the gaps caused by professional specialization among psychology, theology, and philosophy.
Integrating insights from psychology and theology, Todd W. Hall and M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall present a definitive model of spiritual transformation based on a relational paradigm, showing how transformation works practically in the context ...
Prior to the death of Jesus, if Jews wanted to come close to God, they would go to the temple. However, they could only enter the courtyard, where they would offer animal sacrifices. They could not go into the temple—a place that ...
It is also ironic that many typify and paradigmize David as the “man after God's own heart” and the icon of (male) Christian leadership when certain aspects of David's life—his adultery, premeditated murder, and other violence—fractured ...
Offering a multi-denominational, multi-ethnic vision, this volume brings together biblical scholars, theologians, and practitioners from around the world to pursue a theology and praxis of spiritual formation for the global church.
Cultivating humanity: Moral formation. Martha Nussbaum does philosophy for the sake of moral formation, and has for years looked both to the ancient Greeks, and imaginative fiction, as resources for her pleas to contemporary society to ...
Beyond Resilience, Posttraumatic Growth, and Self-Care: A Biblical Perspective on Suffering and Christian Spiritual Formation. In Psychology and Spiritual Formation in Dialogue: Moral and Spiritual Change, ed. Thomas M. Crisp, Steven L.
Rajalakshmi, R., and Malcolm A. Jeeves. 1965. “The Relative Difficulty of Reversal Learning (Reversal Index) as ... Ramachandran, Vilayanur S., and Sandra Blakeslee. 1998. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind.
In this book Shults and Sandage address the subject of spiritual transformation through the lenses of psychology and theology.
John H. Coe and Todd W. Hall tackle these and other provocative questions in this next volume of the Christian Worldview Integration Series which offers an introduction to a new approach to psychology that seeks to integrate psychology and ...
This book provides an introduction to the important conversations that have developed out of these interchanges. The dialogue between psychology and religion is difficult to study for a number of reasons.