This is a comprehensive introduction to psychology as it is relevant to those training for and working in the clergy. Proceeding from the understanding that psychology is the discipline that illuminates those processes of personal change and growth central to religion, the volume ranges over many aspects of the subject, covering social, developmental, educational, occupational and counselling psychology, as well as the psychology of religion. Material is structured according to four major themes: orientation, personal aspects of religion, psychology of the Church and psychology of pastoral...
This is a comprehensive introduction to psychology as it is relevant to those training for and working in the clergy. Proceeding from the understandin...
The book seeks to describe the psychological processes that are involved in arriving at religious knowledge. The view that direct knowledge is impossible in the religious domain, only 'faith' possible, is rejected. It is argued that the ways in which people come to know other things, in particular how people arrive at personal insights, is close at many points to how they arrive at religious insights. The psychological processes involved in religious knowing are described in the terminology of contemporary cognitive psychology.
The book seeks to describe the psychological processes that are involved in arriving at religious knowledge. The view that direct knowledge is impossi...
The last 20 years have seen the development of a growing body of psychological literature on the long-neglected subject of forgiveness. Forgiveness has been widely regarded as a purely religious construct. However, recently it has been advocated in many different secular contexts as offering an appropriate and healthy means of release.
The book continually engages the reader on both psychological and theological levels in a sustained dialogue that has not permeated any of the books already available on forgiveness.
The last 20 years have seen the development of a growing body of psychological literature on the long-neglected subject of forgiveness. Forgiveness...
Each world faith tradition has its own distinctive relationship with science, and the science-religion dialogue benefits from a greater awareness of what this relationship is. In this book, members of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) offer international and multi-faith perspectives on how new discoveries in science are met with insights regarding spiritual realities.The essays reflect the conviction that religion and science each proceed best when they re pursued in dialogue with each other, and also that our fragmented and divided world would benefit more from a...
Each world faith tradition has its own distinctive relationship with science, and the science-religion dialogue benefits from a greater awareness o...
The cognitive science of religion is an inherently heterogeneous subject, incorporating theory and data from anthropology, psychology, sociology, evolutionary biology, and philosophy of mind amongst other subjects. One increasingly influential area of research in this field is concerned specifically with exploring the relationship between the evolution of the human mind, the evolution of culture in general, and the origins and subsequent development of religion. This research has exerted a strong influence on many areas of religious studies over the last twenty years, but, for some, the...
The cognitive science of religion is an inherently heterogeneous subject, incorporating theory and data from anthropology, psychology, sociology, evol...
Theologians and religious figures often draw a distinction between religion of the head and religion of the heart, but few stop to ask what the terms head and heart actually denote. Many assume that this distinction has a scriptural basis, and yet many Biblical authors used the word heart as a synonym for mind. In fact, there isn t a strict separation of the two concepts until the modern period, as in Pascal s famous claim that the heart has its reasons that reason can not know. Since then, many other philosophers and theologians have made a similar distinction.The fact that this distinction...
Theologians and religious figures often draw a distinction between religion of the head and religion of the heart, but few stop to ask what the terms ...
Many people are now interested in the relationship between religion and science, but links between Christian belief and psychology have been relatively neglected. This book opens up the dialogue between Christian theology and modern scientific psychology, approaching the dialogue in both directions. Current scientific topics like consciousness and artificial intelligence are examined from a religious perspective. Christian themes such as God's purposes and activity in the world are then examined in the light of psychology. This accessible study on psychology and Christian belief offers...
Many people are now interested in the relationship between religion and science, but links between Christian belief and psychology have been relativel...
