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God & soul care : the therapeutic resources of the Christian faith / Eric L. Johnson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Downers Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press, [2017]Description: 717 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780830851591
  • 0830851593
Other title:
  • God and soul care
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: God and soul care.LOC classification:
  • BR110..J558.G63 2017
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Contents:
DOXOLOGICAL/THERAPEUTIC AGENDA OF THE TRINITY -- Orbit of the Human Soul -- Glorious Missions of the Trinity -- Word of the Son -- Gift of the Spirit -- Stories of Glory -- PART II: GOODNESS OF GOD AND THE HUMAN CREATION -- Beauty of God and Human Flourishing -- Way It's Supposed to Be -- PART III: DIVINE DIAGNOSIS -- Sin and Psychopathology -- Suffering and Psychopathology -- Biopsychosocial Damage and Psychopathology -- Breadth of Psychopathology -- PART IV: DIVINE INTERVENTION -- Life of Christ and the Perfection of Humanity -- Death of Christ and the End of Psychopathology -- Resurrection of Christ and the Beginning of the New Creation -- Exaltation of Christ and the Spread of the New Creation -- DIVINE THERAPY -- Holy Embrace of the Body of Christ -- Old-New Division of the Christian -- Redemptive Differentiation -- Redemptive Integration -- DIVINE CURE -- Living in the future.
Summary: 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. --
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DOXOLOGICAL/THERAPEUTIC AGENDA OF THE TRINITY -- Orbit of the Human Soul -- Glorious Missions of the Trinity -- Word of the Son -- Gift of the Spirit -- Stories of Glory -- PART II: GOODNESS OF GOD AND THE HUMAN CREATION -- Beauty of God and Human Flourishing -- Way It's Supposed to Be -- PART III: DIVINE DIAGNOSIS -- Sin and Psychopathology -- Suffering and Psychopathology -- Biopsychosocial Damage and Psychopathology -- Breadth of Psychopathology -- PART IV: DIVINE INTERVENTION -- Life of Christ and the Perfection of Humanity -- Death of Christ and the End of Psychopathology -- Resurrection of Christ and the Beginning of the New Creation -- Exaltation of Christ and the Spread of the New Creation -- DIVINE THERAPY -- Holy Embrace of the Body of Christ -- Old-New Division of the Christian -- Redemptive Differentiation -- Redemptive Integration -- DIVINE CURE -- Living in the future.

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. --

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