Social Psychology in Christian Perspective
Title | Social Psychology in Christian Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Angela M. Sabates |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 567 |
Release | 2012-11-14 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0830866418 |
Angela Sabates offers a well-researched social psychology textbook that makes full use of the unique view of human persons coming down to us from the Christian tradition. She highlights Christian contributions to a wide range of questions from the dynamics of persuasion to the social psychology of violence.
Psychology in Christian Perspective
Title | Psychology in Christian Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Faw |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1995-06 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0801020123 |
Following the standard progression of introductory study, the chapters of this book identify and discuss issues in tension between faith and psychology. Faw suggests that Christian perspectives bring needed diversity to the study of mind and behavior.
Psychology
Title | Psychology PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy S. Rice |
Publisher | |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2011-11-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780981558721 |
What ever you think about Psychology, the time to deal with it is before your student goes to college. Psychology is a popular course and it is often required in college. This text introduces Christian high school students to the study of the human mind and prepares them for the worldview challenges embedded in modern psychology's theories and schools-of-thought. This elective helps students to evaluate naturalism, behaviorism, humanism, evolutionism, moral relativism and reductionism. The text covers the history of psychology, as well as current theories on motivation, emotion, development, memory, sensation, abnormal psychology, social psychology, treatment, and more, each chapter includes bolded key words, a chapter summary, and review questions. 256 pages, indexed.
Psychology from a Christian Perspective
Title | Psychology from a Christian Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald L. Koteskey |
Publisher | Abingdon Press |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 1980-01-01 |
Genre | Christianity |
ISBN | 9780687348701 |
This book places the discipline of psychology within a Christian perspective. It concentrates on the following topics - methods, biological foundations, development, sensation, perception, consciousness, learning, thinking, memory, motivation, emotion, personality, assessment, disorders, therapy and social psychology. The author has condensed and simplified this second edition, targeting undergraduates. He has also included a section in each chapter telling at least one thing the Christian faith would imply about the psychological topic of the chapter, as well as a section in each chapter about how students could use the psychological principles discussed in the chapter in living Christian lives.
Psychology and Spiritual Formation in Dialogue
Title | Psychology and Spiritual Formation in Dialogue PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas M. Crisp |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2019-01-22 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830873112 |
Can the phenomena of the human mind be separated from the practices of spiritual formation? Research into the nature of moral and spiritual change has revived in recent years in both the worlds of psychology and theology. Rooted in a year-long discussion held by Biola University's Center for Christian Thought (CCT), this volume bridges the gaps caused by professional specialization among psychology, theology, and philosophy.
The Social Psychology of Religion
Title | The Social Psychology of Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Argyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2008-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781906763039 |
Michael Argyle throws light on the nature and origins of religious behaviour, beliefs and experience, testing social scientists pronouncements, such as Freuds father projections theory. Published by PFD, jacket design by Jason Jermaine Morgan.
Positive Psychology in Christian Perspective
Title | Positive Psychology in Christian Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Hackney |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2021-03-16 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0830828710 |
Positive psychology is about fostering strength and living well—about how to do a good job at being human. Charles Hackney connects this still-new movement to foundational concepts in philosophy and Christian theology. He then explores topics such as subjective states, cognitive processes, and the roles of personality, relationships, and environment.