Recently added articles from Journal of Psychology and Theology:
"Are you afraid to die?" Religion and death attitudes in an adolescent sample.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... The purpose of this study was to provide an in-depth examination of the relationship between religion and death attitudes. First, we investigated whether the results found in previous research on adults could be generalized to adolescents. Second, we implemented a person-centered approach ...
Appreciative musings on normative thoughts, normative feelings, normative actions.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... This article consists of appreciative reflections upon Hoffman and Strawn's article, Normative Thoughts, Normative Feelings, Normative Actions: A Protestant, Relational Psychoanalytic Reply to E. Christian Brugger and the Faculty of the Institute for the Psychological Sciences (IPS). In ...
The new exodus: a narrative paradigm for understanding soul care.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... A consensus exists among biblical scholars that the original Exodus event became paradigmatic for Israel's later self-identity. Isaiah, among other Old Testament writers, made extensive use of Exodus language re-framed for his context. In the New Testament, Jesus is the New Joshua who ...
Kierkegaard as physician of the soul: on self-forgiveness and despair.(Soren Kierkegaard)(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Despair (sickness of the spirit) and divine forgiveness are decisive psychological and theological themes essential to both Soren Kierkegaard's relational vision of 'the self before God' and his own personal struggles with guilt and the consciousness of sin. Reading Kierkegaard as both a ...
The ABC-X model of family stress in the book of Philippians.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Throughout history, families have dealt with stress and crises. Hill's 1949 ABC-X model of family stress remains a useful tool for identifying the different components that affect how successfully families cope with stress. Paul's letter to the Philippians expands and illustrates this ...