TY - BOOK AU - Chan,Lois TI - Unholy alliance: the dangers of mixing pop psychology with Christian truth SN - 9781933204062 AV - BF51 .U546 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Sisters, Oregon PB - VMI Publishers KW - Christianity KW - Psychology KW - Psychology and religion KW - Religious aspects N1 - nbl-03 psy; 2 N2 - Paul urged Corinthian Christians to have no partnership with demons. Today Corinth's occultism returns in a psychological guise, often a Christian guise. Lois Chan demonstrates how the occult has transformed itself into enlightened modern psychological techniques, promising supernatural powers to gain mastery, control over others and circumstances. Veneered over by selective biblical quotations, occult promises offer empowerment so that Jesus' petition, "Father, not My will, but Thy will be done," is to be recast as "My will be done." ER -