Theology, Psychology and the Plural Self - Léon Turner

Theology, Psychology and the Plural Self

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Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-17993-3 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
Is the human self singular and unified or essentially plural? This book explores the seemingly disparate ways that Christian theology and the secular human sciences have approached this complex question. Through an original analysis of recent theological and secular accounts of self and personhood, this book examines the extent of the intertheor
Is the human self singular and unified or essentially plural? This book explores the seemingly disparate ways that Christian theology and the secular human sciences have approached this complex question. The latter have largely embraced the idea of the plural self as an inescapable, even adaptive feature of psychological life. Contemporary Christian theology, by contrast, has largely neglected recent psychological accounts of the naturalness of self-plurality, and has sought to reaffirm the self's unity in opposition to those postmodern theorists who would dismantle it. Through an original analysis of recent theological and secular accounts of self and personhood, this book examines the extent of the intertheoretical disparity and its broader implications for theology's dialogue with the human sciences in general, and psychology in particular. It explains why theologians ought to take questions about the plurality of self very seriously, and how they overlap with many of the central concerns of contemporary theological anthropology, including the notions of relationality, particularity and human sinfulness. Introducing a novel psychological framework to distinguish various understandings of self-disunity, the author argues that contemporary theology's blanket condemnation of self-multiplicity is misconceived, and identifies a possible means of reconciling theological and human scientific accounts.

Léon Turner is a Research Associate at the Psychology and Religion Research Group, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK.

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Crisis of Identity: Diagnosing and Healing the Fragmented Self; Chapter 2 The Destabilisation of Identity in Contemporary Social Thought; Chapter 3 The Problem of the Self and its Representation; Chapter 4 Experiential Multiplicity, Narrative Identity and Pathologies of Self; Chapter 5 The Unity of the Person and the Doctrine of Imago Dei; Chapter 6 Pannenberg and McFadyen in Dialogue with Psychology; conclusion Conclusion: Reconfiguring Theology’s Dialogue with Psychology;

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Science and Religion Series
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 353 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10 1-032-17993-7 / 1032179937
ISBN-13 978-1-032-17993-3 / 9781032179933
Zustand Neuware
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