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Part One, “Historical Retrospect on the Bible and Psychology,” documents the development of psychological biblical criticism as an emerging discipline within biblical studies since the 1960's. Part Two, “An Agenda for the Bible and Psychology,” advances a definition of the goal of psychological biblical criticism, enumerating ten areas ...
- Wayne G. Rollins
- 1997
Part One, "Historical Retrospect on the Bible and Psychology," documents the development of psychological biblical criticism as an emerging discipline within biblical studies since the 1960"s. Part Two, "An Agenda for the Bible and Psychology," advances a definition of the goal of psychological biblical criti-
- Wayne G. Rollins
- 1997
In retrospect, that seems to have been a fruitful set of objectives and intuitive assumptions, which have become the focus of inquiry for a wider world of scholarship today.
- J. Harold Ellens
- 1997
- Influential Views of The Image of God
- A Moral-Interpersonal Perspective
- An Analysis of The Imagoqualities
- Modern Psychology and Cultural Anthropology
- Implications For Ministry and Mission
The view that God’s image in humanity reflects certain physical characteristics has dominated various periods of church history but is now almost universally abandoned, inasmuch as Scripture, apart from anthropomorphic language, consistently denies bodily attributes to God the Father.5 The first occurrence of the expression ‘the image of God’ appea...
After the incident of the golden calf, Moses despairs of his ability to continue to lead the children of Israel. He asks God for reassurance that Yahweh’s personal presence will continue to guide him and requests further insight into the nature of that presence. Specifically, he asks to know God’s ways (Ex. 33:13) and to experience God’s glory (33:...
Merciful26
A merciful person is not only emotionally compassionate but also active at meeting others’ needs. These include the primary needs which psychologists stress as well as higher-level needs according to hierarchies of self-actualization. Mercy assumes that the caregiver is wise and sensitive to others’ conditions and willing to make interpersonal contact and to use one’s resources to meet needs. The merciful person will also try to influence others who could help the needy. God’s compassion or m...
Gracious27
Gracious persons are interpersonally warm and relaxing—people feel at home in their presence. The Psalmist praises the advantages of a person who is gracious and compassionate in right relationships out of respect for Yahweh (Ps. 112:4–5). Jesus’ beneficial manner of dealing with friend, enquirer and critic helped those who accepted his style of relationship to develop a sense of fulfilment. So impressed was John, who labelled himself Jesus’ beloved disciple, with Jesus’ graciousness, that he...
Slow to anger28
God is very patient with people about their sin, giving time for repentance and change. He predicted the destruction of many cities’ (e.g. Tyre and Jerusalem) and empires (e.g.Assyria and Babylon) generations before judgment fell, trying to get them to do what they knew was good according to God’s image in them. The prophet Jonah predicted Nineveh’s destruction for their evil, but when they repented God relented, explaining to Jonah that he was a ‘gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger...
Psychology
The major contemporary psychological theories of the human person are humanistic in essence and disagree with the biblical doctrines and world-view in important ways. For Carl Rogers, each human is basically good, with a tendency to actualize his or her potentialities. This self-fulfilling force may be constricted by one’s evil social environment, resulting in maladjustment, or it may be freed by other fully-functioning people. The major self-expressed values in the fully-functioning person (...
Cultural anthropology
After premature claims earlier in this century that anthropology had proved that there were no cross-cultural moral or interpersonal absolutes common to humanity, recent research has tended to refute these claims. A spate of studies enables one to compile a fairly lengthy list of universally desirable moral or ethical behaviour traits and/or sanctions against failing to exhibit these traits.50The following list culls from these sources those cross-cultural ethical universals which most closel...
If a moral and interpersonal image of God remains, however distorted, in all human beings, then Christian witness and evangelism, especially in cross-cultural contexts, ought to utilize this fact to its best advantage. We can expect the characteristics of compassion, love, truthfulness, forgiveness, justice, and so on, to be desired, to varying deg...
Psychology depends upon relationships and self-introspection. It is problem oriented. Needs become paramount in one’s life. However, in direct contrast is the biblical admonition to know and love the Lord God, creator of self. Secural humanism is gaining access into Christianity through psychology.
According to Rollins (1990:4) biblical psychology, can be defined as the study of the biblical perspective on the origin, nature, pathology, health and destiny of the human psyche or soul. He...
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Bible, drawing on the existing literature and integrating the perspectives of Christians and scholars and practitioners from the PP field. We clarify and contextualize relevant terms and principles, identifying areas of intersection and divergence. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
