Psychology Theology

While many books have tried to integrate theology and psychology, this book takes another step and explores the importance of the spiritual disciplines in psychotherapy, helping counselors to integrate the biblical principles of forgiveness, redemption, restitution, prayer, and worship into their counseling techniques. Since its first publication in 1996, this book has quickly become a contemporary classic—a go-to handbook for integrating what we know is true from the disciplines of theology and psychology and how that impacts your daily walk with God.

What if the very faith meant to heal your soul sometimes feels like it clashes with the tools designed to heal your mind? Millions silently wrestle with anxiety, depression, or trauma while feeling torn between prayer and therapy, Bible and science, soul care and mental health. For too long, faith and psychology have been painted as adversaries. Believers were told to “just pray harder” while the mental health community often dismissed the role of spirituality. The result? Countless people remain caught in the middle—longing for wholeness but unsure where to turn. This groundbreaking ...

Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology is the eighth title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this volume, well-known cognitive scientist Justin L. Barrett offers an accessible overview of this interdisciplinary field, reviews key findings in this area, and discusses the implications of these findings for religious thought and practice.

Paul Tillich (1886-1965) is generally considered the most original and insightful theologian of the 20th century. After serving on the front lines of World War I, and then being the first non-Jewish intellectual removed from his professorship by Hitler, he emerged as a leading proponent of existentialism. Using its insights to better understand human doubts and anxiety, as well as to challenge life's destructive forces, he very early on identified the dangers of scientific materialism, religious fundamentalism, and industrialization and its commodification of nature. Exposing the sense of ...

The Fourth Initiation explores the esoteric aspects of Self-Development. The Fourth Initiation reveals The Four Grammar of self-development through the four dimensions of geometry and its numerous iterations in esoteric traditions and initiatory systems. What is Four Grammar? Four Grammar is the esoteric translation and comprehension of The Tetragrammaton as a universal initiation lesson towards consciousness expansion. The Fourth Initiation is the story of consciousness development told through the universal ideas of great wisdom teachers. Self-development inspiration and visualization ...

The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most influential spiritual texts of ancient India. In Perennial Psychology of the Bhagavad Gita, Swami Rama makes this classic scripture accessible to all students by vividly drawing out the psychological concepts found within. The teachings in this book are based on the understanding that the outside world can be mastered only when one’s inner potentials are systematically explored and realized.

MORAL INJURY: Towards a Theology seeks to add to the theological discussion surrounding PTSD and/or Moral Injury by contributing a Biblically Reformed and Covenant Theological take on this issue.

We live in a time of unparalleled opportunity for women and a time, just because of that opportunity, of great stress. It is a time when every woman can find her own particular style, to develop her skills, to acknowledge her needs and failures, and to claim both her satisfactions and dissatisfactions. The old stereotypes are all but dead. But another danger threatens; of new stereotyped roles for women in the very range of choices and opportunities presented to the. "RECEIVING WOMAN grew out of a decade of reflections on women’s experiences - my own, my patients’, and my students’," ...

This program is read by the author. From Rob Bell, the New York Times bestselling author of Love Wins This audiobook is an invitation to see your life in a new way. Because we each have a story we're telling- about who and where we come from, what we've been through, and what it all means-or...

In this groundbreaking new book, researchers Andrew Newberg and Eugene d'Aquili offer an explanation that is at once profoundly simple and scientifically precise: The religious impulse is rooted in the biology of the brain. In Why God Won't Go Away, Newberg and d'Aquili document their pioneering explorations in the field of neurotheology, an emerging discipline dedicated to understanding the complex relationship between spirituality and the brain.

This book seeks to show the reader that ‘new life’ is new in quality and capacity, not just new in time and that a sixth need, blessedness, should be added to William Glasser’s Choice Theory so that a more complete view of human functioning can be understood. The human soul needs a ‘felt’ relationship with God, through Jesus Christ, in order to function as God designed it. Blessedness is a real human need. Thomas Traherne, a 17th century pastor, theologian, and philosopher helps us to understand this need and how to bring it to reality in our lives. It is my hope and prayer that ...

Worldviews Apart: Christianity and Psychology identifies contemporary issues that reveal a gap between the beliefs and values of major segments of Christianity and the profession of psychology. Different interpretations of biblical texts suggest possibilities for integration. This publication is based on a revised and expanded chapter of Eve, A Serpent, and A Woman’s Place (Sutton, 2025) and is part of a series of works exploring the gaps between faith and psychology as well as ways some have found to bridge the gaps between the two worldviews. Table of Contents Preface 1. Introduction to...

As a clinical social worker and therapist specializing in anger management, Julie Catalano has seen that when women choose to address their anger management issues, they often do so with feelings of shame or regret. In The Anger Management Workbook for Women, Julie offers a five-step anger management plan that will help you understand the source of your anger, release the pervasive guilt that often results from negative behaviors, and learn actionable strategies for managing anger now and in the future.

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 070 ‘Many people who suffer depression are rather ashamed of it. They think they ought to be able to pull themselves out of it by prayer and will power, and when their efforts just make things worse they get still more depressed and ashamed.’ Gonville ffrench-Beytagh begins his simple, non-technical and refreshingly honest short work with these words. He was an Anglican priest who himself suffered from depression, for which he underwent psychiatric treatment. Without attempting to undervalue the real suffering which any form of depression brings, he describes his ...

Addiction is a prevalent issue affecting millions of people worldwide, often causing profound emotional, psychological, and spiritual damage. In the Christian context, addiction is seen not only as a physical or psychological condition but also as a form of spiritual bondage that requires healing through the transformative power of God’s Word. This thesis explores the significant role of God’s Word in addiction counseling and equally investigates the ethical and spiritual differences between expository preaching, which involves the systematic, doctrinal exposition of Scripture to a ...

Everyone talks about the personal ministry of the Word, but how do we make one-another ministry truly biblical? Gospel-Centered Counseling equips you to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth. It does so by examining life’s seven ultimate questions and then guiding you on a journey that...

The Holy Quran for Educating the Child transforms the Quran into a modern and useful educational tool for parents and teachers, and thereby renders the beneficial power of the Quran widely accessible. The Holy Quran for Educating the Child interweaves the Quran, in unprecedented fashion, with modern educational approach, thereby helping the Islamic world and the West to better understand each other. The Holy Quran for Educating the Child celebrates and reveals the beauty of the Quran and its respect for human dignity. Thus, it both refutes various prejudices against Islam, and provides a ...

Hailed as a "work of art" by the New York Times, this best-selling classic brings a deft touch and understanding spirit to the story of a teenage girl's descent into madness - and the three friends who are determined to walk with her where adults fear to tread.

Chaos may seem an unlikely source of creativity, but below its senseless surface lies a swirling depth of possibilities. Every person enters a world that is already filled with symbols, meanings, and stories. No-one starts with a blank canvas, rather, we find ourselves thrust into a matrix of narratives. Yet, something truly new is possible amid this chaos. Time is a space in which these stories can be reassembled, reinterpreted, and ordered in a way that gives particular meaning to my life.

Cultivating Love Daily Bread For Life, Volume I is the sixth book in the Cultivating Love series written by Dr. Ken McGill, LMFT, CSAT. Daily Bread For Life is a combination of blog entries from three of the blogs to which Dr. McGill posts: 1. Dr. Ken McGill's Blog, which provides clinical and psychotherapeutic information about communication, addiction and recovery, family relationships, empathy and other values and characteristics. 2. Daily Bread For Life, which provides insight and practical information regarding dealing with troubling emotions ("love" or lust, anger, fear, guilt and ...