tended to assume the modern separation of theology from psychology (and psychotherapy and counseling). The aim of this book is a synthesis of all relevant biblical, theological, psychological, and philosophical forms of knowledge about human beings with the goal of understanding human beings as comprehensively as possible, that is, as much like God as we can.5 It is obvious that this book is more biblical and theological than empirical. However, understood as a corrective and an exercise in retrieval,