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The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality is a comprehensive single-volume introduction to Christian spirituality, and represents the most significant recent developments in the field. Offers a thoroughly interdisciplinary, broadly ecumenical, and representative overview of the most significant recent developments in the field Comprises essays combining rigorous academic scholarship with accessible and elegant writing Reflects an understanding of the field as the study of the lived experience of Christian faith and discipleship Provides material on biblical, historical, and theological foundations, along with treatment of contemporary issues
Preliminary Material /Erik Berggren -- The need for confession and absolution /Erik Berggren -- The need for authority /Erik Berggren -- The confessor's authority /Erik Berggren -- Relationship of trust between confessor and confessant /Erik Berggren -- Confessional method /Erik Berggren -- Psychiatric observations and theories relevant to the psychology of confession /Erik Berggren -- Criticism and valuation of the part played by abreaction and assimilation in psychiatry /Erik Berggren -- Affective discharge in confession /Erik Berggren -- Restoring psychic unity: assimilation /Erik Berggren -- The part played by personal influence in psychotherapy and confession /Erik Berggren -- How can guilt-laden memories be kept from consciousness? /Erik Berggren -- What is characteristic of christian confession /Erik Berggren -- Bibliography /Erik Berggren -- Index of Names /Erik Berggren.
An introduction to one of the core methods of approaching biblical texts.
Psychology of religion has been enjoying considerable attention of late; the number of publications and people involved in the field is rapidly increasing. It is, however, one of the oldest branches within psychology in general, and one of the few in which an interdisciplinary approach has been kept alive and fostered. The fate of the field has been quite varied in the countries where psychology of religion has been initiated and developed during the 20th century. In this volume, some aspects of this international history are examined. Coming from six different Western countries, each of the contributors has a record in the historiography of psychology and profound knowledge of psychology of...
Science could never have proceeded without the creativity of intuition--yet intuition is poorly understood and poorly studied. In Intuition: The Inside Story, scholars explore the nature of intuition and its practical place in the social and behavioral sciences and the arts. These contributors present the latest theoretical developments and research and provide every day examples of intuition from the lab and field. They discuss the nature and experience of intuition from the perspectives of anthropology, philosophy, physics, engineering, psychology, medicine and midwifery. Contributors include: Marcie Boucouvalas, Guy Burneko, Brenda J. Dunne, Jeremy Hayward, Charles Laughlin, Evelyn Monsay, Anne Pineault, Luci Roncalli and Joe Sheridan.
Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the "International Library of Psychology" series is available upon request.