Coming to Peace with Psychology: What Christians Can Learn from Psychological Science
- ISBN-10
- 0830838821
- ISBN-13
- 9780830838820
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-07-23
- Publisher
- InterVarsity Press
- Author
- Everett L. Worthington Jr.
Description
Worthington suggests that the relationship between psychological science and Christianity is less like a war or mere dialogue and more like an emerging marriage. In this relational model of psychology and Christianity, there may be marital spats at times but also great potential for an intimate, mutually fulfilling relationship.
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