147). Wisdom is the crown jewel: “nothing you desire can compare” (Prov 3:15). Believe so that you may understand. This is obviously the case when it comes to knowing God. But it equally applies to understanding persons who intrinsically are image of God, accountable to God, deviant from God and renewable by God. The psyche’s dynamics operate Godwardly—whether we know it or not, whether a theory reckons with it or not, whether a therapy addresses it or not. Let’s briefly orient to underlying assumptions