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Title: Spirit-Controlled Temperament by Tim Lahaye ISBN: 0-8423-6220-7 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book for understanding people
Comment: Dr. LaHaye's book is an excellent reference guide for understanding people. The principles, if applied in a believer's life work miracles. For the unbeliever, it may sound "preachy". Being a naturopathic doctor it was fascinating to study the Hippocratic temperments in light of personality. And see them put in application with my clients. Interesting corrilation between temperment and health problems, although Dr.LaHaye does NOT go into medical correlations, these were my own observation. Great stuff no matter what.
Rating: 2
Summary: Stick with "Left Behind"
Comment: This book begins with a description of the four humors theory applied to temperament instead of medicine (since the body fluids this theory was originally based on are nonexistent). It's not the first time I've seen this idea, but I am wondering why it is better than the many, many other attempts to categorize people out there. It's not based on the Bible at all, which makes me wonder about Tim Lahaye's claim that this book started out as a set of sermon outlines. If I went to a church and the sermon was on something besides the Bible, I wouldn't go back to that church! As far as I know, there isn't a lot of research behind it either, though it is old.
Eventually we finally get back to the Bible with a study on the fruit of the spirit. No problems there. Then Tim Lahaye attempts to explain and cure some of the common ailments of believers. I nearly choked when he stated that selfishness is the root cause of depression. Seeing as he apparently knows so much as to write a whole book on depression, I thought somewhere he would have noticed that introspection and self-centeredness are common symptoms of depression. He continues with a story about confronting a depressed friend about her selfishness. Unfortunately, she wouldn't believe him, and is still depressed. With all due respect, saying selfishness is the cause of depression is like saying sneezing is the cause of colds, and telling a depressed person to stop being selfish will be about as effective as telling a person with a cold to stop sneezing!
Forgive my insistence on this particular point, but I have seen and experienced firsthand so many Christians rejecting their fellow believers because of their depression, anxiety, mental problems, or whatever. They think that this would never, ever happen to a true Christian, and have books like this one as their proof. Because of this belief, which conveniently overlooks David, Elijah, and Jesus, many people have been hurt.
Tim Lahaye's theories do not come from the Bible, as much as they claim to be Biblical. I suggest that Tim Lahaye, as a pastor and Bible scholar, not a psychologist, stick to those areas he is qualified in rather than constructing elaborate theories in areas where he apparently knows very little.
Rating: 1
Summary: It Does More Harm Than Good
Comment: I first read this book 27 years ago. I read the original edition published around 1974. But this edition is no better!
First, LaHaye condemns "negative" human emotions as SINS. This idea comes from late medieval theology, and was implemented by--who else?--John Calvin. LaHaye insists that anger--which he says is the dominant "negative" emotion for the "choleric" temperament--is the fruit of selfishness. At times he confuses selfishness with self-centeredness. He implies that losing one's temper is a sin, and that by being "controlled by the Holy Spirit" a Christian can NEVER get emotionally angry. He also insists that fear of any kind--especially worry--is also sin, and that the root of fear is selfishness.
The second problem with this book's ideas--which are naturally the author's ideas--is that the fruits of the Spirit are positive emotions. LaHaye also teaches the so-called four temperaments as if they are modern-day notions, while they are actually classical in origin and no longer accepted by behavioral scientists.
LaHaye believes in Sola Scriptura--one of the cries of the Protestant Reformation. Yet, he goes outside of Scripture in his dogmatism. What's more, he manipulates Scripture in order to have it say what he wants it to say.
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Title: Transformed Temperaments by Tim Lahaye ISBN: 0842373047 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Why You Act the Way You Do by Tim Dr. Lahaye ISBN: 0842382127 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 May, 1988 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Spirit-Controlled Woman by Beverly Lahaye ISBN: 1565072235 Publisher: Harvest House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Understanding the Male Temperament: What Women Want to Know About Men but Don't Know How to Ask by Tim Lahaye ISBN: 0800757548 Publisher: Revell Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Anger Is a Choice by Tim Lahaye, Bob Phillips ISBN: 0310242835 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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