Christianity & Psychoanalysis: A New Conversation

Bys: Bland, Earl D. and Strawn, Brad D.

Unsurprisingly, given Sigmund Freud's understanding of religion, the conversation between Christianity and psychoanalysis has long been marked by mutual suspicion. Psychoanalysis originated within a naturalist, post-Enlightenment context and sought to understand human functioning and pathology--focusing on phenomena such as the unconscious and object representation--on a strictly empirical basis. Given certain accounts of divine agency and human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830828567
• ISBN13: 9780830828562
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"