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Transformative Encounters: The Intervention of God in Christian Counseling and Pastoral Care is unavailable, but you can change that!

What would it mean for Christian counseling and pastoral care to take seriously the idea that God intervenes in the world? What would it look like for therapists and pastors to see themselves as opening the door to a miraculous divine encounter? How would counseling change if the intervention of God was not merely a theoretical idea but a lived experience? Building on Gary Collins's classic work,...

the thoughts of God deeply, asking him to reveal his special way for this unique person that he has sent to us for help. Second, this also means that we are concerned with “placing psychological theories and interventions at the disposal of the Holy Spirit” (Zeiders, 2004, p. 15). Zeiders argues about the central question: Rather than ask, “How do I intellectually integrate my training in psychology and social science with Christian doctrine” the practitioner of Christian Holism asks, “How does the
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