Becoming Ourselves: Anthropological Musings for Christian Psychologists

A Christian narrative of the self provides a critique of a contemporary highly ennobled therapeutic and individualistic understanding of the self. Within a Christian anthropological narrative, the self is ennobled not in and of itself, but by virtue of its union with God. This leads theologians, bot...

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Main Author:	Charles DeGroat
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2014-03-01
Series:	Religions
Subjects:	self anthropology psychology theology therapy postmodern imago dei
Online Access:	http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/5/1/268

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Becoming Ourselves: Anthropological Musings for Christian Psychologists

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