The integration between psychology and Christianity has been a hot issue for Christian counselors since mid 1970s. The movement of integration has been developed in reaction to the acceptance of psychology in the area of pastoral counseling without any criticism about psychology from the Christian viewpoint. Since Jay Adams totally rejected psychology in the area of pastoral care, the effort to...

I The Jewish-Christian debate goes back to the origins of Christianity. Jews are portrayed in the New Testament as questioning both Jesus’ messianic status as well as the claim that he was resurrected from the dead. As adherers to a religion which emerged from Judaism, early Christians found it necessary to write polemical treatises attacking Judaism, probably more for purposes of self-definiti...

A growing literature explores relationships between religion, ecology, and environmental stewardship. In Christian writings, Celtic Christianity has been proposed as exemplary for contemporary Christians seeking harmonious relationships among humanity, God, and nature. The accuracy of descriptions in this recent literature of ecological values perceived in Celtic Christianity requires critical ...

* Ph.D., M.D., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Professor Emeritus, Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, Texas ABSTRACT: Christian bioethics conflicts with secular morality and its bioethics. From artificial insemination from donors, embryonic stem-cell research, and abortion to passive euthanasia, the commitments of traditional Christian bioethics collide with those of the dominant s...

A sample of 158 churchgoers attending eight Anglican churches in the United Kingdom completed the abbreviated Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire together with the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity to replicate a 1996 study by Carter, Kay, and Francis. Data confirm that scores on Attitude toward Christianity were significantly negatively related to Psychoticism, but to neither...

Monotheism. The author, in a very convincing and logically sound way, uses Freud's argument to prove the Christian case, but starting from theistic instead of the atheistic major premise. The sections dealing with original sin, and the dispute as to whether it was due to sexuality or pride and aggression, are unusually interesting. This book and Freud and Christianity*, by R. S. Lee, M.A., D.Ph...

In his 1995 introduction to Marxism and Christianity, Alasdair MacIntyre claimed that Marxism ‘is the only secular post-enlightenment doctrine to have’ a metaphysical and moral scope comparable to that of Christianity. This was not meant as a mere academic point, for Marxism: An Interpretation (the title of the first, 1953, edition of Marxism and Christianity) was written as a contribution to w...

The issue is whether Christianity, of its nature, would seek to prevent a justifiable breach of confidentiality or could endorse it, under certain circumstances, as the act which is fundamentally more loving or more truthful. The individualistic nature of Western Christianity is noted. The Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is used to show Christian support for dynamic rather than literal ...

Among the "Great Religions" of the world may be discovered repetition and similarity, as well as, variations and significant differences. This similarity becomes clear when it is understood that of the five great religions-Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-a reduction to two may be made historically. Hinduism and Judaism may be considered the genesis of the other three: Hinduism ...