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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...

1970s and 1980s, a well-known Christian psychologist with theological training wrote the book Can You Trust Psychology? In it he gave cautious affirmation to some aspects of psychology, and he did so in a balanced and fair manner.9 For a time it seemed possible that the battles might cease, or at least abate. Then in 1993 a pastor and biblical counselor answered with his book Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology.10 It was more balanced than some of the earlier antipsychology books, but its publication
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