David Winfrey wrote an interesting article in Christian Century, January 23, 2007. In the article called “Southern Baptists reject ‘pastoral counseling’- Biblical Therapy” he addresses a change in practices by Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n
The change is to reject psychology as a tool for counseling and focus solely on the Bible as know-it-all information about human behavior.\u00a0What is more, the pastoral counseling model that is being rejected for Biblical counseling was partly\u00a0pioneered in Southern Seminary by Wayne Oates,\u00a0according to David Winfrey.\u00a0Vicki Hollon is quoted in the article saying:<\/p>\n
Their movement away from science reveals a lack of faith, or at least a fear that somehow science is outside the realm of God’s creation and domain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What is of special interest is that this rejection of scientific methods, and a move towards the Bible as a some kind of an ultimate handbook of all human behavior is a\u00a0relatively\u00a0new phenomena. Its origins are after mid-20th century, and it seems that it is getting stronger in the beginning of the 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David Winfrey wrote an interesting article in Christian Century, January 23, 2007. In the article called “Southern Baptists reject ‘pastoral counseling’- Biblical Therapy” he addresses a change in practices by Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The change is to reject psychology as a tool for counseling and focus solely on the Bible as know-it-all information about … Continue reading Biblical Therapy or Biblical Counseling or Biblical Whatever<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37,66],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-counseling","tag-fundamentalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}