β Scribed by Gerrit Glas (auth.), Gerrit Glas, Moshe Halevi Spero, Peter J. Verhagen, Herman M. van Praag (eds.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This bookβs aim is to enrich and deepen our psychological understanding of biblical concepts and personalities. Such understanding is relevant for theology as well as for psychology and psychiatry. It may help theologians to contextualize their discipline by bringing it into contact with contemporary psychological and existential issues and tensions, both at an individual and a societal level. It also encourages psychologists and psychiatrists to develop and refine their vocabularies when they try to comprehend the existential meaning of what is transmitted to them by their clients.
The book highlights the concepts of prophecy, martyrdom, and messianism from Christian and Judaic perspectives. Each concept offers one biblical figure as representative: Jeremiah, Paul, and Jesus, respectively. The sections on these three subjects and personalities are sandwiched between a section on historical and conceptual issues, and a section devoted to select interdisciplinary issues.
Biblical images of pain, anguish, suffering, hope, resentment, and awe are part of our cultural background and shape the way we understand our lives and sufferings. Biblical perspectives on human existence, on the other hand, differ in some important respects from modernist conceptions that prevail in psychotherapy and psychiatry. The book investigates the possibility of a theological criticism on common frameworks of psychological and psychiatric understanding of the inner world of the client. It also offers new ways to understand the βtransformativeβ power of religion.
Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction to Historical and Conceptual Issues....Pages 3-7
Psychiatry and Religion....Pages 9-19
Biblical Narratives as History....Pages 21-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Introduction to , Prophecy ....Pages 37-40
The Dynamics of Prophecy in the Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel....Pages 41-51
The Prophets as Persons....Pages 53-63
Jeremiah Interpreted....Pages 65-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Introduction to Martyrdom....Pages 89-92
Martyrdom....Pages 93-104
The Martyrdom of Paul....Pages 105-113
Spiritual, Human, and Psychological Dimensions of St. Paulβs Martyrdom....Pages 115-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Introduction to Messianism....Pages 127-131
Casting a Psychological Look on Jesus the Marginal Jew....Pages 133-151
The Land of Israel....Pages 153-168
The Person of Jesus....Pages 169-181
Imagining Jesus: To Portray or Betray?....Pages 183-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Introduction to Interdisciplinary Issues....Pages 207-212
The Hidden Subject of Job....Pages 213-266
Biblical Themes in Psychiatric Practice....Pages 267-277
The Bible and Psychology....Pages 279-293
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Searching For The Dynamic βWithinβ....Pages 295-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-323
Religious Studies; Psychology, general; Philosophy of Religion; Psychiatry; Psychotherapy
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