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| Titre : | Psychology and Christianity : the View both Ways |
| Auteurs : | Malcolm A. Jeeves, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Leicester [GB] : Inter-Varsity Press (IVP), 1976 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-85111-316-6 |
| Format : | 184 p. / index |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | RB/A (Psychologie de la religion, psychologie de l'expérience religieuse, débat psychologie et foi) |
| Résumé : |
This is a book about what psychologists have discovered and what Christians believe. Often there seems to be a conflict between the two. Some popular writers appear to suggest that man is nothing but a highly developed animal, a complex computer or a conditioned automaton.
The author believes that psychology and religion, properly understood, are allies rather than enemies. He aims to change attitudes of suspicion and hostility into mutual respect. He has planned the book so that it will be helpful to the non-specialist as well as to those studying for degrees in psychology or one of the behavioural sciences. |
| Note de contenu : |
1. Introduction Psychologists and their presuppositions - Explaining and explain¬ing away - Psychology and religion: some mutual concerns - The plan of the book. 2. Psychology today: its scope, methods and models Gaining perspective - Contemporary psychology's scientific aspirations - Psychology's special problems - Theories in psychology - Explanation in psychology - Uses and abuses of models in psychology. 3. Evaluating contemporary theories Psychoanalytic views of man - Information processing models of man - Ethological models of man — Skinner and behaviourism — Summing up. 4. The Christian view of man The biblical perspective - Man's nature and calling: the Old Testament emphases - Man’s nature and destiny: the New Testament teaching - Man: the image of God - Man's destiny. 5. Relating psychological and Christian models of man Psychologists' assumptions - Nothing-buttery: a recurring theme - Man's basic problem: a biblical diagnosis. 6. From animal to human behaviour Men and animals: similarities and differences - Behaviour control and modification - Behaviour control technology: some ethical and moral problems - Behaviour therapy - A Christian assessment. 7. Men, machines and moral choices Determinism: the background - Defining the problem - Proposed solutions to the problem - 'Eogical indeterminacy' and freedom of choice - Summing up. 8. Conversion: evaluating the psychological accounts Conversion, brain-washing and wishful thinking - Three types of explanation - Biblical accounts of conversion - Relating the psychological and biblical accounts. 9. Same words, different meanings Moral learning and development - Guilt, guilt feelings and psychotherapy. 10. God: comforting illusion or demanding reality ? Freud on primitive religion — Freud on developed religion - Other psychodynamic views of religion - Skinner on God and religion - Evaluating psychological accounts of the function of religion - Summing up. 11. Looking back and looking forward Looking back: conflicts to be avoided - Looking forward: allies or enemies? |
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