Religious Diagnosis In A Secular Society: A Staff For The Journey

Book Summary


This book draws on extensive clinical experience to create a useful model for religious diagnosis. Clinicians and clergy will find the book useful in their care of troubled people. Contents: Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Patterns of Religious Diagnosis; Ethical Guilt: The Feeling of Blame: Being Punished, Feeling Guilty, Seeking Redress; Idolatry: The Feeling of Betrayal: Being Violated, Feeling Terror or Rage, Recovering the Hope of Ultimacy; Dread: The Feeling of Defilement: Being Abandoned, Feeling Dread, Rediscovering Joy; Summary: Diagnosis, Piety and Theology, Diagnosis and the Transcendent Function; Epilogue; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index.

Book Details


Book Name Religious Diagnosis In A Secular Society: A Staff For The Journey
Author Donald D. Denton, Jr. Denton
Publisher University Press Of America (Dec 1997)
ISBN 9780761809654
Pages 158
Language English
Price 2700
 
 

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