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“Do not be anxious about anything.” When it comes to stress and worry, that’s all we really need to say, right? Just repent of your anxiety, and everything will be fine. But emotional life is more complex than this. In The Logic of the Body, Matthew LaPine argues that Protestants must retrieve theological psychology in order to properly understand the emotional life of the human person. With...

for theological peril? Modern psychology has methods of uncovering and describing reality that are particularly effective but can be theologically loaded. The reason is that all scientific knowing arises from apprenticeship into a tradition. So the entire disciplinary structure of psychology is maintained by apprenticing new practitioners into a tradition involving trust and dissent. As Michael Polanyi writes, “nobody knows more than a tiny fragment of science well enough to judge its validity and
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