Psychological Insight into the Bible
by Rollins, Wayne G.Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-06-15
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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Summary
Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts. Discusses the contribution psychological insight might make to an understanding of the role of the human psyche or soul in the history of the Bible and its interpretation. Topics include behavioral psychology and the Bible, psychoanalytic literary theory and the Hebrew Bible. Softcover.
Table of Contents
| Psychological approaches to the Bible | |
| Past, present, and future | p. 3 |
| System of biblical psychology | p. 5 |
| The psychology of the New Testament | p. 11 |
| A psychological-critical approach to the Bible and its interpretation | p. 17 |
| The care and cure of the soul | p. 22 |
| Soul and psyche : the Bible in psychological perspective | p. 24 |
| Soul : an archaeology | p. 33 |
| On being human : the spiritual saga of a creaturely soul | p. 36 |
| Freud and Jung | p. 40 |
| Freud and Jung | p. 43 |
| Psychoanalytic literary theory and the Hebrew Bible : what hath Freud wrought? | p. 48 |
| The phallacy of genesis : a feminist-psychoanalytic approach | p. 50 |
| Phallocentrism and logocentrism | p. 51 |
| Jung's story of the unconscious | p. 53 |
| Behavioral, learning, object relations, and developmental approaches | p. 56 |
| Behavioral psychology and the Bible | p. 58 |
| Psychological aspects of Pauline theology | p. 63 |
| Winnicott's squiggle game and biblical interpretation | p. 69 |
| Developmental psychology in biblical studies | p. 73 |
| Between texts and readers | p. 79 |
| The psychology of biblical interpretation | p. 81 |
| Viewpoints : perspectives of faith and Christian nurture | p. 86 |
| Personality type and scripture | p. 95 |
| Case studies and applications | |
| Biblical symbols and archetypal images | p. 99 |
| Water as a religious symbol | p. 103 |
| Biblical archetypes and the story of the self | p. 106 |
| Jesus the holy fool | p. 113 |
| Biblical personalities : Ezekiel and Paul | p. 116 |
| Seeking Ezekiel | p. 118 |
| Psychological perspectives on the life of Paul | p. 127 |
| Biblical personalities : Moses and Jesus | p. 138 |
| Moses and Yahweh | p. 141 |
| Jesus at thirty | p. 149 |
| Dynamics of biblical texts : Hebrew scriptures | p. 158 |
| The story of Adam and Eve | p. 160 |
| The story of Jonah | p. 166 |
| The ten commandments | p. 171 |
| Dynamics of biblical texts : New Testament | p. 175 |
| The wedding at Cana | p. 177 |
| Christ and Antichrist | p. 181 |
| The theology of Paul | p. 188 |
| Biblical religious experience : dreams, prophecy, and healing | p. 193 |
| Dreams and visions in the Bible | p. 194 |
| The psychology of the prophets | p. 199 |
| Healing | p. 204 |
| Biblical religious experience : the demonic and exorcism, glossolalia, and conversion | p. 212 |
| The Gerasene demoniac | p. 214 |
| Glossolalia - language of the unconscious? | p. 219 |
| On conversion | p. 226 |
| Biblical effects : the pathogenic and the therapeutic | p. 230 |
| Defining a toxic text | p. 232 |
| "The Bible made me do it" : text, interpretation and violence | p. 236 |
| Using the Bible in pastoral care and counseling | p. 239 |
| Biblical stories for psychotherapy and counseling | p. 243 |
| Biblical psychology : on the nature and habits of the soul | p. 248 |
| What is biblical psychology? | p. 250 |
| Biblical psychology in Paul and the Old Testament | p. 256 |
| The human being : Jesus and the enigma of the son of the man | p. 259 |
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