Foundations for soul care : a Christian psychology proposal - Johnson, Eric L., 1956- (Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, 2007)
Background to the current predicament -- A place for the Bible in Christian soul care -- The Bible in the history of Christian soul care -- The Bible and current evangelical soul-care paradigms -- Texts and contexts -- Objects of disciplines and their contexts -- Properties of scripture and its relation to other texts -- Interpreting the Bible for Christian psychology and soul care -- Translating the texts of other communities for Christian soul care -- Postscript: composing a body of Christian psychology literature : a communal project -- "Let there be humans" : the semiodiscursive constitution of human beings -- The ground of the created order : the Word of God -- From signs to history : a hermeneutic analysis of human life -- Orders of meaning : a multilevel analysis of human life -- Toward a complex model of human life : semiodiscursive, multilevel, hierarchical and holistic -- The communication of God's glory in Christian soul care -- The trinitarian ground and goal of Christian well-being and soul care : union and communion with God -- The call to inwardness : opening up to the glory of God -- Inwardness, part 1 : self-examination -- Inwardness, part 2 : the identification and deconstruction of barriers -- Inwardness, part 3 : the constitutive internalization of sign of glory -- The call to outwardness : the manifestation of Christlikeness -- Promoting Christiformity through the therapeutic delivery of signs of glory.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [624]-696) and indexes.
Keywords: Bible -- Psychology; Christianity -- Psychology