PART ONE: Background to the current predicament -- A place for the Bible in Christian soul care -- The Bible in the history of Christian soul care -- The Bible and current evangelical soul-care paradigms. PART TWO: Texts and contexts -- Objects of disciplines and their contexts -- Properties of scripture and its relation to other texts -- Interpreting the Bible for Christian psychology and soul care -- Translating the texts of other communities for Christian soul care -- Postscript: Composing a body of Christian psychology literature: A communal project. PART THREE: "Let there be humans": The semiodiscursive constitution of human beings -- The ground of the created order : the Word of God -- From signs to history: A hermeneutic analysis of human life -- Orders of meaning: A multilevel analysis of human life -- Toward a complex model of human life: Semiodiscursive, multilevel, hierarchical and holistic. PART FOUR: The communication of God's glory in Christian soul care -- The trinitarian ground and goal of Christian well-being and soul care: Union and communion with God -- The call to inwardness: Opening up to the glory of God -- Inwardness, part 1: Self-examination -- Inwardness, part 2: The identification and deconstruction of barriers -- Inwardness, part 3: The constitutive internalization of sign of glory -- The call to outwardness: The manifestation of Christlikeness -- Promoting Christiformity through the therapeutic delivery of signs of glory. APPENDIX: ONE: A Biblical Coherence Theory of truth in counseling -- TWO: Toward a Christian semiotics for a Christian psychology.