Loading…

The Biblical Counseling Movement after Adams is unavailable, but you can change that!

Those inside and outside of the biblical counseling movement recognize growing differences between the foundational work of Jay Adams and that of current thought leaders such as David Powlison. But, as any student or teacher of the discipline can attest, those differences have been ill-defined and largely anecdotal until now. Heath Lambert, the first scholar to analyze the movement’s development...

salvation that Jesus Christ accomplishes for his people and applies to them by his Spirit. Adams stated that counseling systems based on any other foundation offer “little hope” and have “no good reason to believe” that success will be the outcome of their efforts. Adams was clear that success in counseling (i.e., change) is possible only because of the saving work of Jesus Christ. Adams did not believe that the transformation that the gospel brings happens in a mystical or instantaneous way. Rather,
Page 42
Buy this book at Logos.com