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- Experimentation in psychology is legitimate, as long as its premises and construct are consistent with Biblical morality. “All truth is God’s truth” is commonly used by psychologists who are Christians to propose that psychological theory and science have the same validity as a Biblical understanding of man and his responsibility to his neighbor.
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Oct 26, 2020 · The impact of a secular worldview does not distort all psychological concepts in the same way or to the same extent. When discussing the relationship between the Bible and psychology, worldview is a key term. Christians differ significantly on this issue.
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We affirm that human problems can be adequately understood, described, and corrected by Biblical language, categories, or concepts, and that the use of terms and language common to psychology is an inaccuracy that is dangerous to Biblical faith and the personal health of counselees.
In order to compete with secular studies that are laden with secular worldview assumptions, Christian psychologists endeavor to develop their own body of psychological research from a Christian point of view. P.J. Watson and R.J. Morris are representative of Christian psychologists who have led and published research efforts of this nature. 13 ...
Jan 4, 2019 · At Cairn we hold the perspective that the influence of a biblical worldview on the validity of a psychological concept depends on the extent to which the concept itself is directly connected to a worldview assumption.
- 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...
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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...
Jul 1, 2018 · The biblical worldview engenders love for God and for one another, whereas the psychological worldview engenders the kind of self-love described in 2 Timothy 3:1-5: This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
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Oct 14, 2024 · Psychology, with its study of behavior, cognition, and emotions, offers valuable insights into the workings of the mind. But how do these theories integrate or collide with our Christian worldview? Can we reconcile psychological concepts with our deeply held religious convictions?
