This might well be
subtitled as
“Is all psychology
atheistic and evil?”
or
“Why won't people
in patriarchy listen to me?”
The last consideration I'd like to
offer before John Weaver's guest post about problems with nouthetic
counseling or “Biblical” counseling that tends to trace problems
back to a sin cause on the part of the person in distress concerns
how Christians go about discerning truth. As previous stated in the
preceding post, this subject is one of great interest today
because of the Southern
Baptist Convention's (SBC) initiative to develop a doctrinal
statement about mental health. I will again endeavor to condense
some complex concepts down into some simple descriptions, though I
would love to jump into elaborate discussions of them. I again beg
the mercy of those with knowledge of these matters as I did in the
previous post, for I have condensed them significantly for the sake
of brevity.
In reading John's article, I realized
again just how profound the implications of how a person arrives at
truth is for those who are working through questions about mental
health and care offered to those in need. In philosophy, this
discussion of developing a theory of knowledge, is called
“epistemology.”
