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For two millennia Christians have been caring for souls. Since the Enlightenment, though, the Christian concept of the soul has been usurped by modern and postmodern notions of the self. “Somehow we misplaced the soul even as we developed a thriving science of the psyche,” lament the editors of this volume. Thus there is a clash between Western therapeutic culture and the church’s understanding...

accurately. In short, psychologists care for the soul. The cure of the soul, most Christian psychologists would suggest, is God’s work and is beyond the scope of mainstream psychological interventions. The book title Care for the Soul, which is more comfortable for the psychologist contributors, may raise offsetting tensions among many theologians. Yes, evangelical Christian theology is about caring for the soul, but it is more interested in exploring the cure of the soul through the confession of
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