more than the study of the psyche or soul. We now know that many psychological phenomena are inextricably linked to physical and chemical processes in the brain. Part of the value of LaPine’s insistence on theological psychology is that it resists the modern, reductionist tendency to explain our emotional life exclusively in terms of brain function. At the same time, LaPine anticipates and avoids the temptation to ignore modern science—and the body—and go directly to soul. In that way lies docetism,