practical theology of those things that our culture labels “counseling issues.” A systematic theology of care and cure for souls will wed conceptual, methodological, and institutional elements. • Our second priority must be to expose, debunk, and reinterpret alternative models, whether secular or religious. Personality theories and counseling models assert different ‘gazes’, different interpretations of human life. Our point of view radically critiques other points of view, and invites them to a