Becoming Ourselves: Anthropological Musings for Christian Psychologists
Journal Title: Religions - Year 2014, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
A Christian narrative of the self provides a critique of a contemporary highly ennobled therapeutic and individualistic understanding of the self. Within a Christian anthropological narrative, the self is ennobled not in and of itself, but by virtue of its union with God. This leads theologians, both ancient and contemporary, to speak boldly about becoming fully human, and even more, becoming God. Herein, this Christian story of the self is explored, with implications for Christian psychology and its dialogue with other psychological perspectives.
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Charles DeGroat
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