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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