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Personality, psychotherapy, and Christian salvation

Journal of Religion and Health, 1968
There is an implicit theory of personality in Christian theology, but it has rarely been worked out in a way that is specifically theological. This exploratory attempt to formulate a theory of personality development and its relation to psychotherapy is grounded in clinical experience with both individual and group psychotherapy, and in theological and
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Personality and Christian Fundamentalism

Journal of Empirical Theology, 1995
This paper examines the relationship between personality and Christian fundamentalist beliefs among adolescents. It uses the results of recent empirical research among 800 schoolchildren, aged 11-15 years, in Dundee (Scotland).
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A History of Christian Conversion

, 2020
Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative history, David W. Kling examines the dynamic of individuals, families, and people groups who turn to the Christian faith.
D. Kling
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Abangan Muslims, Javanese Worldview, and Muslim–Christian Relations in Indonesia

, 2020
One of the many faces of Islam in Indonesia is the abangan Muslims or the abangans. As one of the most populous Muslim groups in the country, it is important to know them. To understand Indonesian Islam or Muslims, one cannot overlook them.
Ferry Y. Mamahit
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Personality and attitude toward Christianity among committed adult Christians

Personality and Individual Differences, 1996
Abstract A sample of 29 men and 32 women highly committed to Christianity and attending an adult Christian study programme completed the Francis scale of attitude toward Christianity together with the abbreviated form of the Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire.
Marian Carter, William K. Kay, Leslie J. Francis   +2 more
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The "New Animism": Implications for a Postmodern Christian Spirituality

Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality
:The movement called "new animism" asserts that experiencing life as an immersion in personal relationships with all beings (including those commonly regarded as "inanimate") is the foundational human way of being.
Mary Frohlich
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Personal Logic and Christian Affirmation

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1964
WO of the strongest influences upon the Philosophy of Religion at the present time are Existentialism and Linguistic Analysis. This being so, it is strange that so little has been done with the "logical form of the personal" which John Macmurray proposed in his Gifford Lectures of 1953 and 1954, for in them he sought to speak to a contemporary ...
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The Origins of Early Christian Ireland

Cultural developments in Early Christian Ireland have long been recognized and described. There has, however, been little attempt to date to explain why the flowering of culture should happen at the time and in the way it did.
H. Mytum
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Christian Atheism

If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within? Slavoj Žižek has long been a commentator on and critic of Christian theology. His preoccupation with Badiou’s concept of ‘the event’ alongside the
S. Žižek
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The Christian Concept of Person

2018
This chapter examines the role of Bonhoeffer’s Christian concept of person in Sanctorum Communio. Many of Bonhoeffer’s readers identify this concept as the cornerstone and foundation of Sanctorum Communio, and sometimes of Bonhoeffer’s theology more broadly.
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