Psychology Through the Eyes of Faith (revised and updated edition)

From the Preface
This book is about the relationship between what psychologists are discovering and what Christians believe. Unlike most other books on psychology and religion, this one is not primarily concerned with what psychologists have said about religion, with the speculations of personality theorists, or with a Christian approach to counseling. Rather, it identifies major insights regarding human nature that college and university students will encounter in a basic psychology course and ponders how the resulting human image connects with Christian belief.
With students’ needs in mind, we have written short essays on many of the big issues in psychology and religion and arranged them to correspond with the sequence of topics often studied in a first course on psychology.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction
Lessons from the Past: Science and Christian Faith
Levels of Explanation
Should There Be a Christian Psychology?
Part 2: Biological Bases of Behavior
The Brain-Mind Connection
Biblical Images of Human Nature
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Uniqueness
Part 3: Human Development
On Living Peaceably with the Mysteries of the Faith
How Much Credit (and Blame) Do Parents Deserve?
Finding Your Path On The Journey of Life
Part 4: Sensation and Perception
The Mystery of the Ordinary
Through the Eyes of Faith
Part 5: States of Awareness
The Day of Rest
Part 6: Learning
Are we Determined or Free?
Part 7: Memory
Memorable Messages
Part 8: Thinking and Language
To Err is Human
Superstition and Prayer
Science and the New Spirituality
Watch Your Language
Part 9: Intelligence
You Are Gifted
Part 10: Motivation
To Accept or to Change?
And God Said, It Is Very Good
Forgiveness: What It Takes and What It Gives
Part 11: Emotion
Wealth, Well-Being, and the New American Dream
This Way to Happiness
Part 12: Personality
A New Look at Pride
The Power of Positive Thinking
Part 13: Psychological Disorders
Is Christianity Beneficial or Hazardous to Your Mental Health?
Part 14: Therapy
Values in Psychotherapy
Part 15: Social Psychology
Nice People and Evildoers
Behavior and Attitudes
Action and Faith
The Fruit of the Spirit
Part 16: Conclusion
The Psychology of Religion
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