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Integrating Psychology and Faith Models for Christian Engagement Paul Moes and Blake Riek
This textbook updates the conversation about models of psychology and faith integration, helping students understand the range of op- tions for Christian engagement. Drawing from themes developed in Paul Moes’s well-received Exploring Psychology and Christian Faith (coauthored with Donald J. Tellinghuisen), Integrating Psychology and Faith develops a set of worldview dimensions that serve to organize a variety of psychology-faith integration models. Paul Moes and Blake Riek set forth principles and themes and estab- lish historical context to help students explore where different views fit on a continuum of approaches to integration and understand the perspectives of other Christians in the field of psychology. In this way, students come to better understand the organizing principles for various views about psychology that they encounter. The book also shows how theological traditions and positions shape views on natural science, social science, and psychology. “Kudos to Moes and Riek for gifting students with a big-idea book—a lucid synopsis of the philosophical, psychological, and theological perspectives that frame our thinking about psychology and faith.” —DAVID G. MYERS, Hope College, coauthor of Psychology “I would readily use this book to engage all of my students, including those from other faith traditions or none.” —HEATHER LOOY, The King’s University
DECEMBER 2023 • 192 pp. • paper • $23.99 • 9781540964755
Paul Moes (PhD, Texas Christian University) is professor of psychol- ogy at Calvin University. He previously taught at Dordt College for eighteen years. He writes about Christian approaches to under- standing brain function, personal responsibility, and human nature. Blake Riek (PhD, University of Delaware) is associate professor of psychology at Calvin University, where he has taught since 2007. His two major lines of research are the psychology of forgiveness and prejudice and bias.
CONTENTS PART 1: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS 1. 2. Worldviews about Human Nature 3. Views in Contemporary Psychology 4. Views in Contemporary Religion PART 2: MODELS OF INTEGRATION
Worldviews and Natural Science Beliefs
5. Scientific Reductionism 6. Biblical Reductionism 7. Complementary Models 8. Humanizers of Science
ALSO BY THE AUTHOR EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY AND CHRISTIAN FAITH 9781540964687 • $27.99p See page 57
Conclusion and Reflection Appendix: What Is a Person? Index
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