Commentary on the Special Issue: Religion in the Psychology of Personality

The author comments on the special issue on religion in the psychology of personality. She focuses her discussion on the following topics: the historical tripartite theory of cognition‐affection‐conation; ways that family psychology and theories of language clarify the “problem” of adherence to “false realities”; the multidimensionality of personality and religion and their cultural embeddedness as illuminated in clinical assessment by way of contextual family theory (Boszormenyi‐Nagy & Krasner, 1986) and the Kantor and Lehr (1975) systems theory; the role of the investigator’s personality in theory and research about personality and religion; the one‐sided emphasis on the empirical tradition in the psychology of religion; and the omission of the personalist tradition.