
Discourses of the Self
Seeking Wholeness in Theology and Psychology
Robert Innes(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 1. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
236 pages
978-3-906762-53-1 (ISBN)
Description
What is wholeness and how can one find it? Drawing on Charles Taylor's philosophy of personhood, this book suggests an answer and, in so doing, also provides a novel way of comparing the disciplines of theology and psychology.
The book describes how the modern self has arisen historically through its relation to sources of value. Theology and psychology are presented as discourses which articulate these value-sources. Hence they offer complementary resources for conferring a unified sense of self.
Key representatives of theology and psychology are considered, e. g. the Augustinian conviction that an individual can attain wholeness through being remade in the image of God, the Freudian struggle for limited self-mastery, the Jungian project of wholeness through individuation, and the humanistic aim of self-actualisation.
The book describes how the modern self has arisen historically through its relation to sources of value. Theology and psychology are presented as discourses which articulate these value-sources. Hence they offer complementary resources for conferring a unified sense of self.
Key representatives of theology and psychology are considered, e. g. the Augustinian conviction that an individual can attain wholeness through being remade in the image of God, the Freudian struggle for limited self-mastery, the Jungian project of wholeness through individuation, and the humanistic aim of self-actualisation.
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Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
Language
English
Place of publication
Bern
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 22 cm
Width: 15 cm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-906762-53-1 (9783906762531)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
The Author: Robert Innes was born in 1959 and is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at St. John's College in the University of Durham, England. He is also an Anglican priest and ministers in a group of former mining communities. He teaches a specialist course in theology and psychology, as well as lecturing at undergraduate level in systematic and practical theology. He has written articles on Augustine, the comparison of theology and psychology and the use of personality indicators in the spiritual life.