The Darkness and the Clearness: Theological and Psychological Implications of Sin and Grace
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Authors
Riedel, Jonathan David
Issue Date
1987
Type
Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
If we wish to understand life we must ask questions, questions
that reflect an avoidance of easy answers or convenient moralizing,
particularly if the questions have to do with the health and the
disease of the human condition. These are questions that touch
the heart of all serious students of human experience. As a
student of both psychology and religion, two of these questions
have bothered me and these questions will serve as the heart of
this paper. "Why does humankind, whose considerable creative
and adaptive abilities could potentially reconcile and solve both
its personal and global fissures and attain some degree of
peaceful wholeness, so often seem inextricably mired in processes
that lead to the destruction of both the quality and the quantity
of its creative life and sap its strength? Why does human
smallness seem to overshadow human greatness)which comes with
growth and creativity?" The second questions is, "Is humankind
capable of solving this dilemma, or must it depend upon forces
much more knowledgeable and powerful than itself?" These are
existential questions because our answers to these questions
determine how we lead our lives, these are questions of interest
to both psychologists and theologians, and finally, these are
questions that are religiously expressed in the Christian concepts
of 'sin' and 'grace', two concepts which have both
psychological and theological applications.
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iv, 154 p.
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Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College
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