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A Theology of Christian Counseling: Introduction to Nouthetic Counseling is unavailable, but you can change that!

A Theology of Christian Counseling connects biblical doctrine with practical living. Salvation, that central concern of Protestant theology, is often too narrowly defined. It is thought of as "being saved from the consequences of sin." But God is doing much more. He is making something new out of the old sinful nature. He is, in Christ, making new creatures.

pattern but competed and conflicted with it? I have detailed some of the principle factors involved in the psychiatric takeover elsewhere,9 and I shall not repeat that story here. Rather, I should like to add one more, one that is pertinest to the very essence of this book: truths that the church does not treat systematically (i.e., theologically) it has a tendency to lose. Why the Change Occurred The pressures that had a part in compressing and shrinking the church’s counseling role were able to
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