Discourses of the Self: Seeking Wholeness in Theology and Psychology: v. 4 (Religion & Discourse) - Softcover

Innes, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 390676253X ISBN 13: 9783906762531

Verlag: Peter Lang, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

What is wholeness and how can one find it? Drawing on Charles Taylor's philosophy of personhood, this book suggests an answer and, in so doing, also provides a novel way of comparing the disciplines of theology and psychology. The book describes how the modern self has arisen historically through its relation to sources of value. Theology and psychology are presented as discourses which articulate these value-sources. Hence they offer complementary resources for conferring a unified sense of self. Key representatives of theology and psychology are considered, e. g. the Augustinian conviction that an individual can attain wholeness through being remade in the image of God, the Freudian struggle for limited self-mastery, the Jungian project of wholeness through individuation, and the humanistic aim of self-actualisation.

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The Author: Robert Innes was born in 1959 and is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at St. John's College in the University of Durham, England. He is also an Anglican priest and ministers in a group of former mining communities. He teaches a specialist course in theology and psychology, as well as lecturing at undergraduate level in systematic and practical theology. He has written articles on Augustine, the comparison of theology and psychology and the use of personality indicators in the spiritual life.

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• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 390676253X
• ISBN 13: 9783906762531
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236