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{"title":"Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Understanding and Addressing The Sacred","authors":"J. Wagner","doi":"10.5860/choice.45-3493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.45-3493","url":null,"abstract":"SPIRITUALLY INTEGRATED PSYCHOTHERAPY UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE SACRED. Kenneth Pargament, New York: Guilford, 2007. Pp. 384, Pb, $38.00. Kenneth Pargament begins this work by giving a brief rational for spiritually integrated psychotherapy. The rationale includes the importance of spirituality among many along with the desire to have this dimension included in the therapeutic relationship. Despite these preferences along with research linking healthy spirituality with greater health and a sense of well-being, however, many psychologists leave spirituality out of the conversation, whether due to feelings of uneasiness or lack of preparation from their schooling, which may cause them to be less than effective during treatment. This disconnect, Pargament argues, must be addressed. Part two begins by framing the spiritually integrated approach as one that can be used with a broad authence, including clients and therapists from \"diverse religious and non-religious backgrounds\" (p. 21). With this in mind Pargament defines spirituality as \"the search for the sacred\" (p. 32). This discussion is followed by a description of several sacred dimensions and qualities we, as humans, share (e.g., the search for significance, intimacy, etc.), ways individuals hold on to the sacred (e.g., prayer, ritual, relationships etc.), and how spiritual coping mechanisms may help in times of stress. While mainly outlining positive mechanisms Pargament clearly points out how spirituality can become misdirected for some people. This type of dis-integrated spirituality (e.g., lack of scope depth, inflexibility, misdirection etc.) can include the use of 'small gods' (gods limited in some way) and/or 'false gods' (idolatry), by clients, often with unpleasant end results. For those who make it through their spiritual struggles successfully, Pargament contends, a spiritual transformation (e.g., letting go, new purpose, centering of the sacred etc.) often takes place that leads to a well-integrated spirituality (e.g., openness to differences, willingness to engage in spiritual dialogue, sincere desire to share spiritual experiences). Part three, the largest section of the book, explores how to address the sacred as part of clinical practice. Pargament begins by clearly defining what spiritually integrated psychotherapy is: \"an approach to treatment that acknowledges and addresses the spirituality of the client, the spirituality of the therapist, and the process of change\" (p. 176); he also encourages timid practitioners not to be rejectionists of this aspect but rather gain knowledge, tolerance, and selfawareness which leads to greater authenticity regarding this topic. From here the author outlines various integration techniques, which can be used in a clinical context. Beginning with implicit assessment, (e.g., judicious self-disclosure, openness to discussions of spirituality etc.), the therapist desires to move the process to one where spirituality is expressed more expl","PeriodicalId":16908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology and Christianity","volume":"2017 1","pages":"373-375"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87827870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror","authors":"R. Bassett","doi":"10.5860/choice.45-2833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.45-2833","url":null,"abstract":"SACRED CAUSES: THE CLASH OF RELIGION AND POUnCS, FROM THE GREAT WAR TO THE WAR ON TERROR. Michael Burleigh. New York: Harper Collins, 2007. Pp. 557 + xviii. Hb. $27.95. Reviewed by Geoffrey W. Sutton (Evangel University/Springfield, MO). When it comes to religious and political behavior, war is not a mere metaphor. Burleigh traces the labyrinthine integration and disintegration of these two great dimensions of human behavior during the past century. He organized the work to reflect ten events that dominate epochs in chronological order, beginning with the Great War. He supplements his text with 10 pages of pictures, 26 pages of detailed notes, 22 pages of a select bibliography, and a 22-page index. The preface is important. Burleigh established his goal as writing \"a coherent history of modern Europe primarily organised (sic) around issues of mind and spirit.\" (p. xi). Thus, by design, the reader will find this treatise has a Eurocentric focus. Less obvious until reading a few chapters, the primary analysis of religious behavior deals with the role of the Vatican and its adherents within the major states of continental Europe. Chapters one to four examine events from World War I through World War II. As the author noted in the preface, this is not just a rehearsal of known events but an insightful look at the dilemmas faced by the church. For example, when church leaders spoke out against Nazi abuses, the German regime subjected Christians to more abuse than before. In addition, Burleigh examined the speeches and printed propaganda to show how the major totalitarian power brokers (Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler) presented their party/government ethos using religious concepts, rituals, and narratives. From flags, to ceremonies, to linguistic concepts, people were led into a pseudo-religious state-worship that competed temporally and spatially with church programs and holidays already crippled by economic limitations, violence, and unrelenting intimidation. Increasingly, in the expanded Soviet Union, the churches struggled against Communist laws and constraints during the Cold War. Some countries fared better than others did but the atheistic states gradually increased their control over the promulgation of religion to such an extent that parents in East Germany were required to obtain written permission to discuss religion with their children during the evening. Not surprisingly, the author attributes much of the eventual demise of Communism to the persistent role of the Vatican. The author focused on Britain when reviewing the 1960s cultural revolution and the loss of religious influence. He notes a few events in the Americas before returning to the revengeful ravages of religious war in Northern Ireland. …","PeriodicalId":16908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology and Christianity","volume":"22 1","pages":"281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86103973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cultural Transitions during Childhood and Adjustment to College","authors":"E. Hervey","doi":"10.1037/e649172007-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/e649172007-001","url":null,"abstract":"Some research has been done on Third Culture Kids (TCKs), those who grow up outside of their parent's culture and build relationships with the multiple cultures during their developmental years (Pollock & Van Reken, 2001). Steps have been taken to address the needs in preparing TCKs for college (Wyse, 1998), but some still face difficulties in adjustment (Cockburn, 2002). This study was designed to look for correlations between the pattern of transitions during childhood and the success in adjustment into college for Missionary Kids (MKs), a subgroup of TCKs. It is hypothesized that MKs who had more negative experiences in earlier transitions would find adjustment to college more difficult, those who have had less interaction with Western peers while growing up and less support when returning to the North America would have greater trouble in the process of transition, and those later in the education process would feel more adjusted than those having recently returned. \"While the results supported the first hypothesis, the second two were only partially confirmed. The implications of these and additional findings are discussed. Over the past fifty years, the advent of improved transportation, increased means of international communication, and advanced technology has sparked a multiplication of global interaction (Hill, 2006). Along with such globalization, the number of expatriates raising their children overseas has grown dramatically (Cockburn, 2002). International schools began to emerge in the 1950s, now estimated to be between 1000 and 2000 in number (Hey ward, 2002). With such changes in society emerged a new population of those young people raised in a multi-cultural setting. They are referred to at times as \"global nomads\" (McCa ig, 1992), but more commonly as Third Culture Kids (TCKs), a term coined by John and Ruth Hill Useem (1976). Pollock and Van Reken (2001) provide the commonly accepted definition: A Third Culture Kid (TCK) is a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside of the parents' culture. The TCK builds relationships to all of the cultures, while not having full ownership of any. Although elements from each culture are assimilated into the TCK's life experience, the sense of belonging is in relationship to others of similar background, (p. 19) Being raised in multiple cultures brings both benefits and challenges. TCKs are influenced by various cultures, both on a superficial level of language and traditions, and a deeper level of values and assumptions (Pollock & Van Reken, 2001). Pollock and Van Reken present four possible relationships someone has to a surrounding culture according to whether they look alike or different from those around them, and whether they think alike or differently from those around them. TCKs hold distinct relationships with multiple cultures, at times being more connected to the host culture than to the parents' culture. In some contexts what others expect o","PeriodicalId":16908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology and Christianity","volume":"38 1","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83486358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stumbling on Happiness","authors":"Geoffrey W. Sutton","doi":"10.5860/choice.44-6522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.44-6522","url":null,"abstract":"STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS. Daniel Gilbert, 2007. NY: Vintage Books. Pp. 311. Reviewed by Geoffrey W. Sutton (Evangel University/Springfield, MO). Harvard psychology professor, Daniel Gilbert, will make you laugh as he weaves witticisms and humorous anecdotes into a stimulating account of scientific research on happiness. Essentially, Gilbert argues in chapter one, that we spend much of our time planning and executing unsuccessful strategies to attain an elusive state of happiness. In sex sections, readers learn why such a quest often proves beyond our grasp. In part one, Gilbert provides a brief overview of the philosophical foundations for the problem of subjective appraisals of happiness. Eventually, he leads the reader to an operational definition by illustrating how common human experiences can lead to shared feelings of happiness. However, he illustrates how the elusive and subjective aspect of happiness can lead to self-deception by demonstrating how the human brain misperceives visual phenomena and similarly misperceives the imagined happiness value of a future event. Next (part two), Gilbert builds on the results of cognitive science to show how people mistakenly recall their previously recorded feelings and struggle to make affective comparisons between experiences. He concludes the section with an appropriately humble appreciation of the problems in measuring happiness. Nevertheless, he urges us to forge ahead with the indexes we have because of the dominant role feelings play in our lives. Caveats aside, Gilbert has set the foundation for the next three parts that address the attitudes of realism, presentism, and rationalization to an understanding of happiness. Realism is the focus for part three. Gilbert argues from research data that imagination provides the illusion of foresight and a sense of realism that is in fact unreal because we routinely fail to realize how many event-related details are filled in by our brains. He summarizes memory research to demonstrate how the brain forms imprecise memories of past events in such a subtle manner that people do not realize the inaccuracies. Thus, he expertly explains how our perceptual processes not only miss important details but also fill in nonexistent information based on previous experience and environmental cues. He also reviews the important dynamics of memory reconstruction especially as related to the accuracy of memories. Although many of these studies will be familiar to undergraduate psychology students, Gilbert shows how these findings are relevant to an accurate appraisal of experiences that we may or may not construe as a basis for happy feelings. In part four, readers learn about the problems people have in accurately predicting their future feelings, which are largely based on the present (hence the name Presentism for this section). Beginning with illustrations of failed predictions and humorous past images of what the future (now past) would be like, Gilbert guides readers","PeriodicalId":16908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology and Christianity","volume":"54 1","pages":"85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91223278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything","authors":"Geoffrey W. Sutton","doi":"10.5860/choice.45-4316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.45-4316","url":null,"abstract":"GOD IS NOT GREAT: HOW RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHING. Christopher Hitchens. 2007. Twelve: NY. Pp. 307. Reviewed by Geoffrey W. Sutton (Evangel University/Springfield, MO). Hitchens begins his pungent polemic against religion by explaining how he came to question religious teaching as a child (chapter 1). Following an experience we might label deconversion, associated with a teacher's simplistic description of reality covered with a simple religious gloss, Hitchens reflects upon perceived oddities in scripture and child-abus ing clergy. Next, Hitchens adumbrates his thesis as: four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that is ultimately grounded on with-thinking. (p. 4) A recurrent motif is an appeal to Ockham's razor as a device to strip the unnecessary explanations of faith from a rational worldview. Hitchens covers the gamut of common objections to religious faith in the five chapters that follow the introduction. These deal with the violence and mayhem visited upon one religious group by another in the name of their particular faith (chapter 2). He inserts an odd essay on the religious denigration of pigs (chapter 3), attacks faith for a history of antihealth policies (chapter 4), and challenges metaphysical claims (chapter 5) along with arguments about intelligent design (chapter 6). A close reading of the antihealth policies of various faiths can be a useful challenge for those concerned with medical ethics, and concerns for psychological well-being, which are not addressed by the author. What seems to be the center point of his book is a trinity of chapters assailing the tenets of Judaism (chapter 7), Christianity (chapter 8), and Islam (chapter 9). Religious scholars know these arguments but the review serves to summarize (or perhaps, bowdlerize) the salient antireligious sentiments that might appeal to a middlebrow audience. Next, we encounter five essays (chapters 10-10) on related matters interrupted by an attack on the failures of Asian faiths (chapter 14). Among other things, Hitchens minimizes miracles, harrumphs on hell, and opines on the onerous doctrines of religion (primarily Christianity). Hitchens concludes with three chapters that offer the reader hope for a better worldview. He responds to anticipated attacks against secularism (chapter 17), supports The Resistance of the Rational (chapter 18), and concludes with a call for a New Enlightenment (chapter 19). The references are a bit too sparse to substantiate many of his attacks. It is evident that he has relied more on appeals to authority, persuasive rhetoric, and logical argument based on selective secular assumptions about reality to support his various positions, rather than address more substantive matters such as tex","PeriodicalId":16908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology and Christianity","volume":"100 1","pages":"372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78064058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"One Nation under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance","authors":"Geoffrey W. Sutton","doi":"10.5860/choice.43-3711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.43-3711","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology and Christianity","volume":"2 1","pages":"276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83700439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding Depression in Women: Applying Empirical Research to Practice and Policy","authors":"V. Holeman","doi":"10.5860/choice.44-5929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.44-5929","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology and Christianity","volume":"33 6 1","pages":"183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81172748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality","authors":"J. Ellens","doi":"10.5860/choice.43-5845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.43-5845","url":null,"abstract":"HANDBOOK OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY, Raymond F. Paloutzian and Crystal L. Park (Eds.). NY: The Guilford Press, 2005. Pp. 590 + xvii. Cloth, npi. Reviewed by J. Harold Ellens. Dr. Paloutzian is Professor of Experimental and Social Psychology at Westmont College, past president of Division 30 of the APA, and author of Invitation to the Psychology of Religion. He edits The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. His colleague, Dr. Park, is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut. Like Paloutzian, she has been the president of Division 36 and is Associate Editor of Psychology and Health, as well as an editorial board member for the Journal of Clinical and Consulting Psychology and The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. Such credentials suggest that we may expect a watershed volume in this new handbook. Our expectations are fully rewarded. This is a tour de force of scientific scholarship, skillful organization, and precise editing. The Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality will be the definitive work on the subject for at least the next century. The editors have brought together substantive essays by 45 notable scholars, including such stellar figures as Roy F. Baumeister of Florida State, Jacob A. Beizen of the University of Amsterdam, Peter C. Hill of Rosemead, Ralph W. Hood, Jr. of the University of Tennessee, the late Bruce Hunsberger of Wilfred Laurier, Annette Mahoney of Bowling Green, Susan H. McFadden of Wisconsin (Oshkosh), Bernard Spilke of Denver (Emeritus), and Carl F. Thoresen of Stanford (Emeritus). They have organized these essays into thirty chapters in the following five sections: Foundations of the Psychology of Religion, Religion Through the Developmental Lens, Religion and Basic Psychology Subdisciplines, The Construction and Expression of Religion, and Psychology of Religion and Applied Areas. Part I has six chapters on Integrative Themes, Spirituality, Measurement, Research Methods, Psychodynamic Psychologies, and Evolutionary Psychology. Part II offers three chapters on religious and spiritual development through the life cycle from childhood to old age, and a fourth on marriage and parenting. The five chapters of the third part discuss neuropsychology and religious experience, cognitive psychologies, emotions and religion, the role of personality, and how religion, attitudes, and social behavior interrelate. The eighth chapter of Part IV focuses specifically on meaning issues, spiritual experiences, conversion and transformation, mysticism, ritual and prayer, Fundamentalism and authoritarianism, forgiveness, and morality and self control (values, virtues, and vices). Part V has seven chapters on spirituality and health, psychopathology, coping, clinical and counseling psychology, advocacy of science, violence and terrorism, and a futurist view of the integration of psychology and religion. David Meyers of Hope College, nationally ","PeriodicalId":16908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology and Christianity","volume":"20 1","pages":"176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77736969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sex in the Bible: A New Consideration","authors":"R. Bassett","doi":"10.5860/choice.44-0880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.44-0880","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology and Christianity","volume":"39 4","pages":"88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91507244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Problem of Evil and the Problem of God","authors":"R. Bassett","doi":"10.1111/j.1467-9205.2006.00289.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9205.2006.00289.x","url":null,"abstract":"THE PROBLEM OF EVIL AND THE PROBLEM OF GOD. D. Z. Phillips (2005). Minneapolis, MN: Fortress. Pp. 280 + xxiii, Pb, $25.00. Reviewed by J. Harold Ellens. A few watershed volumes have been written by Christian scholars during the last three decades about the perplexities of human suffering. Notable among them are Nicholas Wolterstorffs autobiographical Lament for a Son (1987), Lewis Smedes' How Can it Be Alright When Everything is All Wrong? (1988), and Philip Yancey's Where is God When It Hurts: A Comforting, Healing Guide for Coping with Hard Times (1990). In that line of inquiry we now have Phillips' work of three parts and 11 chapters. Wolterstoff's book was of enormous help to suffering persons from the outset, and remains so nearly two decades later because it is an existential personal report on what it is to suffer unspeakable loss and get through Christianly. He is not afraid to say aloud that much of the traditional dogma about God's sustaining mechanisms are not real or true, but he leads us to the center and to the essence of the experience of loss and of spiritual resilience. Smedes' piece was a somewhat less satisfying effort to combine psychological observations with theological framework. The result was a nice but not necessary book. Like much of his published work, it was not quite compelling. Yancey's book got a great deal of play, largely, I think, because so much of his work has been enormously appealing to the general public, particularly his, What's So Amazing About Grace. His book on suffering is a folksy how-to book about suffering, with both the few strengths and the numerous weaknesses of all how-to books. It ended up being a kind of analytic narrative, viewing grief and loss from afar. Phillips' new book incites the feeling that one is located somewhere in the scholastic discourse of the Middle Ages, approximately half way between Peter Lombard and Thomas Aquinas. It is a book of philosophy grappling with the speculations of theology. Its character and mode is suggested by the abstruse abstraction of Simone Weil quoted on the fly leaf, setting the tone for the book. \"We have to be careful about the level on which we place the infinite. If we put it on the level which is only suitable for the finite it does not much matter what name we give it.\" Phillips holds the Danforth Chair in Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University and is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Wales, Swansea. His previous recent books are Religion and Friendly Fire (2004), Recovering Religious Concepts (2000), and Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation (2001). …","PeriodicalId":16908,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology and Christianity","volume":"114 1","pages":"363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79339282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}