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Title: Religious Thought and the Modern Psychologies: A Critical Conversation in the Theology O Culture by Don S. Browning ISBN: 0800623223 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: December, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Summary: A Fruitful Critical Conversation
Comment: In his book _Religious Thought in the Modern Psychologies_, Don Browning attempts a critical conversation between several modern psychological theories (e.g. humanistic, Jungian, Freudian, behavioral) and ethics and Christian theology. He seems to have two goals. First, he wishes to show that while the psychologies as "sciences" claim empirical and ethical objectivity, underlying all of them are an implicit advocacy of a particular ethics as well as a particular unifying view of the cosmos (in the same way that a religion might view the world as ordered by the divine). Second, he compares and contrasts the way that these psychologies and Christianity approach such things as self-love and fulfillment and behavior towards others. In so doing, he provides critique of both psychology and Christian theologizing and allows the two to inform and enrich each other.
Overall, Browning does an excellent job of constructing a fascinating dialogue between two different disciplines. Browing is a fairly dense writer. His use of new terms that he defines (e.g. "metaphors of ultimacy") is initially distracting. His focus on the particular thought of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Ricoeur, while informative, left me wishing that he had drawn as broadly from religious and philosophic sources as he did from psychological ones. Nonetheless, I thought the book was a very insightful. Browning is very convincing in his arguments and provides lots of ground for further discussions. SOme of the density of his writing stems from his desire to state his ideas precisely and I rarely felt him to be caught up in rhetoric or polemic. I read this book for a graduate class on psychology and religion, but would recommend it for anyone interested in a very rich (and occasionally demanding) dialogue between two quite distinct disciplines.
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Title: Pastoral Diagnosis: A Resource for Ministries of Care and Counseling by Nancy J. Ramsay ISBN: 080062629X Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Theological Worlds: Understanding the Alternative Rhythms of Christian Belief by W. Paul Jones ISBN: 0687414709 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: November, 1989 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Ethics, Second Edition by William K. Frankena ISBN: 0132904780 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 01 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $30.67 |
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Title: Soul Searching: Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility by William J. Doherty ISBN: 046500945X Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy by Carl Rogers ISBN: 039575531X Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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