Add to ORKGTwo major events in the biblical stories of the Holy family are how Mary and Joseph, each at a time, are visited by an angel carrying the message of Mary having a baby through the Holy Spirit. Popularly speaking, this message must have blown their minds, and, thereby, they likely found themselves in some sort of crisis afterwards. This essay examines how the psychological theory of Murray Bowen may be useful as a key for interpreting these biblical texts, Luk and Matt 1:18-25. Murray Bowen's “Family systems theory” describes how every member of a family is linked together as a social system, and this essay uses Bowen’s concepts of differentiation, triangles, and solid self/pseudo-self. By using relevant psychological theory in the interpret...
Jacob was shaped in his formative years by his manipulative mother and passive father. His father, ...
My work on the thealogy of Mary conveys a largely subjective way of thinking, it does not claim to p...
This article is a wide-ranging consideration of the role that contemporary academic psychology might...
Two major events in the biblical stories of the Holy family are how Mary and Joseph, each at a time,...
This study proposes that family systems therapy can prove useful in understanding Biblical families ...
This paper investigates the possibility of a psychological reading of the biblical story of Jacob (G...
This thesis is a study that has its beginning in Jan Grimells book När identiteter förändras. Grimel...
Click on the DOI link to access the article (may not be free).This article employs attribution theor...
The aim for this paper is to study how mystics can be seen as religious psychologists. It does so by...
This article interprets the life of Thérèse of Lisieux within the general theoretical context of Bow...
This dissertation presents the theoretical foundation for a depth psychological perspective of the C...
The story of Moses dominates most the whole story in the Quran. When one assumes that the Qur’ān bel...
Exploring religion from the perspective of attachment theory, Schaap-Jonker addresses how people’s c...
The Revelation of St. John, the last book of the Bible, is sometimes called the Apocalypse or Book o...
The interaction of individual and society can be studied from different viewpoints. Similarly, the f...
Jacob was shaped in his formative years by his manipulative mother and passive father. His father, ...
My work on the thealogy of Mary conveys a largely subjective way of thinking, it does not claim to p...
This article is a wide-ranging consideration of the role that contemporary academic psychology might...
Two major events in the biblical stories of the Holy family are how Mary and Joseph, each at a time,...
This study proposes that family systems therapy can prove useful in understanding Biblical families ...
This paper investigates the possibility of a psychological reading of the biblical story of Jacob (G...
This thesis is a study that has its beginning in Jan Grimells book När identiteter förändras. Grimel...
Click on the DOI link to access the article (may not be free).This article employs attribution theor...
The aim for this paper is to study how mystics can be seen as religious psychologists. It does so by...
This article interprets the life of Thérèse of Lisieux within the general theoretical context of Bow...
This dissertation presents the theoretical foundation for a depth psychological perspective of the C...
The story of Moses dominates most the whole story in the Quran. When one assumes that the Qur’ān bel...
Exploring religion from the perspective of attachment theory, Schaap-Jonker addresses how people’s c...
The Revelation of St. John, the last book of the Bible, is sometimes called the Apocalypse or Book o...
The interaction of individual and society can be studied from different viewpoints. Similarly, the f...
Jacob was shaped in his formative years by his manipulative mother and passive father. His father, ...
My work on the thealogy of Mary conveys a largely subjective way of thinking, it does not claim to p...
This article is a wide-ranging consideration of the role that contemporary academic psychology might...