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How are Christians to understand and undertake the discipline of psychology? This question has been of keen interest (and sometimes concern) to Christians because of the importance we place on a correct understanding of human nature. Psychology can sometimes seem disconnected from, if not antithetical to, Christian perspectives on life. How are we to understand our Christian beliefs about persons...

This understanding of integration does not require one to be in tension with all aspects of secular psychology. There are many topics to which Scripture does not speak—how neurons work, how the brain synthesizes mathematical or emotional information, the types of memory, or the best way to conceptualize personality traits. There are also many areas of psychological study where the most basic construals that nonbelieving scientists make about their subject matter are roughly in accord with how Christians
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