obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Judith Rappaport (1989) finds the roots of modern OCD in what the Catholic Church originally called “scrupulosity”—the overly rigid attending to morals and proper behavior. Jeremy Taylor (1660) most thoroughly explored it, making it a disorder with a longer history of religious “diagnosis” and “therapy” than secular. These examples illustrate that Christians have long addressed mental health in ways that were progressive for their time. Even as Christian music
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