Journal of Psychology and Theology articles from September 2004

Journal of Psychology and Theology archives from September 2004

Introduction.(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... That psychology as a discipline emerged concomitantly with modernity, no one would deny. The theoretical significance of this historical observation is the focus of this special issue. One might argue that psychology as a modern enterprise has...

Referential integration: an emotional information processing perspective on the process of integration.
September 22, 2004... This article contends that the field of integration needs to examine the processes involved in achieving unified conceptual truths about human nature. A theory of emotional information processing (Bucci, 1997) that incorporates the concept of...

How to anticipate predictions about integration's future trends.
September 22, 2004... Predictions about integration's future offer dizzying and crisscrossing contradictions. The present special issue of the Journal threatens to add even more, arising, as it does, from a legitimate restlessness with the status quo in evangelical...

Wesleyan theological methodology as a theory of integration.
September 22, 2004... The central claim of this article is that debates over the integration of psychological theories and findings, on the one hand, and Christian doctrine, on the other, largely boil down to differences in theological methodology, and that the...

God as cause or error?: Academic Psychology as Christian vocation.
September 22, 2004... Christian psychologists can find it challenging to work in the context of secular psychology, with its presuppositions of methodological naturalism and its secularizing values. Unthinking engagement with the secular field of psychology can...

Expanding horizons for Christians in psychology.
September 22, 2004... The integration of psychology and Christianity involves the juxtaposition of at least two horizons of understanding. Numerous attempts have been made to produce an expanded horizon that is faithfully and integrally both Christian and...

Agency and purpose in narrative therapy: questioning the postmodern rejection of metanarrative.
September 22, 2004... Postmodern ideas have led to increased interest in narrative in the domains of both theology and psychotherapy. Narrative theology allows the concept of an intrinsic human telos, a divinely created purpose which constitutes the perfection of a...

Integration discourse: modern and postmodern.
September 22, 2004... Psychologists and theologians are culture bound beings whose construals take place within history such that traces of the social context flow into their scholarly dialogue. The authors argue for the legitimacy of diverse voices--modern and...

After postmodernism: perspectivism, a Christian epistemology of love, and the ideological surround.
September 22, 2004... Postmodernism liberates the integration of psychology and Christianity from the domination of modernism, but also leads to a vertiginous relativism. A movement beyond postmodernism seems essential. For Christians, such a movement might build...

Journal File.
September 22, 2004... This section of the Journal attempts to keep readers informed of current resources of an integrative nature or those related to the general field of the psychology of religion appearing in other professional journals. A wide range of...

Forgiveness and reconciliation as applied to national and international conflicts.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... FORGIVENESS AND RECONCILIATION AS APPLIED TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS Helmick, Raymond G. and Petersen, Rodney L., editors. 2001 (hard cover); 2002 (paperback). Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy and...

Integrating psychology and spirituality: a dialogical process.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... INTEGRATING PSYCHOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY: A DIALOGICAL PROCESS Gorsuch, Richard L. (2002). Integrating psychology and spirituality? Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. Hardcover.(xi + 191 pp.). $58.95. ISBN 0-275-97372-7. Richard...

Books received.
September 22, 2004... The following books have been received from publishers and are under consideration for review in the Journal of Psychology and Theology. Listing of a volume does not necessarily imply that it will be reviewed. Readers with appropriate academic...

Forthcoming articles.
September 22, 2004... Winter, 32:4, 2004 Proposed levels of Christian spiritual maturity. Timothy S. Gibson (Sterling College, 712 N. 6th St., Sterling, KS 67579). Accepted for publication September 16, 2003. The multidimensional nature of quest motivation....