Soul Care Collection (2 vols.)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The Soul Care Collection (2 vols.) brings together two groundbreaking works on Christian psychology and counseling. God's therapeutic agenda begins in the perfect triune communion of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit who created human beings to flourish by participating in his glory. But they are now alienated from God and subject to different forms of psychopathology—sin, suffering, and biopsychosocial damage. So God intervened in Jesus Christ to manifest even greater glory. Through union with his incarnation, life, death, resurrection, and exaltation, Jesus has overcome the soul-disordering consequences of sin and now is bringing about a new creation by the Holy Spirit and faith. The church as the body of Christ is where God's therapy is put into action—where people can learn to flourish in communion with God and each other as God originally intended. Told in this way, the deep connection between Christianity and psychology becomes evident.
- Draws upon the Bible and Christian intellectual traditions
- Presents a detailed overview of the current state of Christian counseling
- Frames counseling within the larger picture of Christian theology theology
- Title: Soul Care Collection (2 vols.)
- Author: Eric L. Johnson
- Publisher: IVP
- Volumes: 2
- Pages: 1,437
- Christian Group: Evangelical
- Resource Type: Monographs
- Topic: Psychology
Eric Johnson, is professor of pastoral care at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He also taught courses in psychology, theology, and Christian worldview at Northwestern College in Minnesota for nine years.
He has contributed to numerous articles in the field of Christian psychology, arguing for the necessity of theology in both counseling and psychological research. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Psychology and Theology, and in 1998 he was editor for a special issue of the Journal of Psychology and Christianity, titled “Psychology within the Christian Tradition.” He authored articles for the Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology and Counseling and has coedited and contributed to two books: Christianity and Psychology: Four Views and God Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents God. Dr. Johnson also wrote Foundations for Soul Care: A Christian Psychology Proposal.