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Theological Models for Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

W. S. Taylor
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For more than sixty years theological thinking has been influenced by developments in modern psychology, as even a cursory examination of the theological literature of the past half century will indicate. The movement has been largely one way: a borrowing of methods and concepts from psychology by the theologian. Now this situation is changing. There are signs of the beginning of a two-way movement, with psychology learning something from theology as well as contributing to theology. We may be at the beginning of a significant period of creative dialogue between the two.

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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1968

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