Mutual Enrichment between Psychology and Theology - Mutual Enrichment between Psychology and Theology -

Mutually Enriching Dialogue Doing Theology in Dialogue with Psychology Two-way dialogue between theology and psychology Perspectives on human nature Perspectives on religion Methodological and philosophical issues Dialogues Within Dialogues: The Idea of the Person in Psychology and Theology The human person in interdisciplinary dialogue Personal relationality in science and religion Embodied cognition, individuality and relationality Dialogues within dialogues within dialogues Notes Psychology Enriching Theology Bishop William Temple and the Psychologists Theology and psychology in dialogue in the nineteenth century William Temple and the new psychology Psychology and the incarnation Alice Graham Ikin Religion and science Notes Have a Bit of Nous: Revelation and the Psychology of Religion Introduction Revelatory experience as historical event The contemplative dimension Solutions to historical puzzles?Psychology and reference in revelatory experience A radical multi-faith perspective The experience of faith Research programmes for the psychologist Transdisciplinarity Notes Embodying Theological Understanding Perception and representation Implications The need for a new theological epistemology Embodied knowing as a new epistemology Conclusion Mindfulness, Secular Spirituality and the Psychology of Religious Knowing Meta-cognitive awareness Exploring an alternative way of knowing The maladaptive mode of processing and religious knowing Teaching a different way of knowing: mindfulness-based approaches Concluding remarks Theology Enriching Psychology Character Strengths and Virtues The fundamental tension Fundamentalism and open-mindedness Hiding and integrity Chaos and prudence Futility and vocation The Psychology and Theology of Open-Mindedness Introduction The psychology of closed- and open-mindedness Open-mindedness and theologies of religious pluralism Scriptural Reasoning The ‘negotiation of the middle’ and interfaith learning Convergences: cultivating open-mindedness in the middle Wisdom and Moral Formation Introduction Ardelt and wisdom O’Connell and moral formation Bringing the two accounts into conversation A socially embedded picture of growth - personal and social Conclusion: mutual enrichment Relational Spirituality and Forgiveness Relational spirituality and forgiveness Our model of relationship between theology and psychology The stress-and-coping model of forgiveness Elements of the model Mediators between successive steps Relational spirituality Elements of the theory of relational spirituality Relational spirituality and forgiveness structural model Victim-sacred (VS) relationship Offender-sacred (OS) relationship Transgression-sacred (TS) relationship Relational spirituality and forgiveness process model How the three component models connect Processes Cognitive processes Appraisals Coping processes R/S processes Attachment and differentiation-of-self processes Evidence for the models Propositions related to the relational spirituality and forgiveness process model A few implications for psychotherapy Conclusion Acknowledgments Mutual Enrichment in Religious Life and Pastoral Care Religion and Mental Health Practice: The Need for a Philosophical Framework for Integration The Alchemy of Meditation: Turning Religion into Science and Science into Religion Introduction The origins of meditation Turning religion into science Scientific research on TM Meditating for peace: an experiment Scientific research on MM Common aims of TM and mindfulness Turning science into religion Notes Worry and Prayer: Some Reflections on the Psychology and Spirituality of Jesus’ Teaching on Worry The nature of worry Jesus’ teaching on worry Worry and prayer Prayer as compassionate action The praying cure for worry Conclusion Notes Spiritual Direction and Bion’s Idea of O Introducing Wilfred Bion Spiritual direction A spiritual director drawing on Bion Reclaiming the apophatic Childhood material Dynamics of a session in a retreat O, Trauma and the real Scripture and myth Conclusion Redeeming Narratives in Christian Community Narrative identity and redemption Unassimilated memory and the problem of narrative conformity ‘Nevertheless’: a counternarrative of redemption Therapeutic model: holding, containing, bearing witness Christian community and redemptive narratives: a therapeutic bridge Ecclesial innovation Conclusion Cultural Disenchantment and the Rise of Holistic Spirituality Definitions of spirituality The emergence of holistic spirituality: the massive subjective turn of modern culture Spirituality today Holistic spirituality and re-enchantment Theological responses to holistic spirituality Conclusion Notes Afterword Methodology Psychology enriching theology Modes of cognition: implications for theology Theology enriching psychology Religion, spirituality and mental well-being Broader perspectives Bibliography