Open AccessTowards the possible integration of Psychology and Christian faith: Faculties of human personality and the Lordship of Christ
Author(s) -
Aleksandar S. Santrac̆
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
in die skriflig/in die skriflig
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2305-0853
pISSN - 1018-6441
DOI - 10.4102/ids.v50i1.1908
Subject(s) - distrust , revelation , imago , personality , faith , jesus christ , psychology , christian faith , order (exchange) , function (biology) , epistemology , theology , sociology , philosophy , psychoanalysis , social psychology , psychotherapist , botany , biology , finance , evolutionary biology , economics
In recent debates every attempt to integrate Psychology and Christian Theology has met with almost complete distrust. This article suggests a possible mode of integration on the basis of the interconnectedness between the faculties of human personality and the idea of the Lordship of Christ. The compartmentalisation of human personality should be resisted, because every human faculty functions holistically. In the biblical revelation each of these faculties is subject to the Lordship of Christ in order to function properly as part of the holistic picture of the imago Dei.