The Integration of Psychology and Christianity – A Domain–Based Approach

Bill Hathaway and Mark Yarhouse have provided a refreshing look at how Christian and psychological thought and practice can be integrated. This will give you a new look at integration. Their twist is to examine how integration might take different forms in worldview, theoretical, applied, role, and personal domains. I really enjoyed the sweep of their thought--from philosophical through professional to the personal as they navigate through and between the domains. It was an intellectual joy ride. --Everett L. Worthington Jr., Commonwealth Professor Emeritus, Virginia Commonwealth University Hathaway and Yarhouse have produced an outstanding introduction and guide to the work of integration of psychology and Christian faith. In organizing their review around the domains of worldview, theoretical, role, applied, and personal integration, they have not only systematized and explained much of prior integrative work but have also extended the discussion by identifying and contributing to missing topics of critical interest to students, practitioners, and scholars alike. They have expanded and enriched the conversation in ways that will bear fruit for years. This is an exceptional book. --Stanton L. Jones, provost emeritus and professor of psychology emeritus, the School of Psychology, Counseling, and Family Therapy at Wheaton College This book is a clear and thoughtful attempt to take stock of the movement to connect contemporary psychology with Christian faith and to advance this project. Hathaway and Yarhouse give a fair and appreciative look at critics of the project in an attempt to derive helpful insights from them. This book would be a helpful starting place for those thinking about the relation between Christian faith and psychology, but it will be also be valuable for those who are already familiar with some of the issues that have been part of the debate. There is a generous and irenic tone to the book that is highly welcome, and the authors show that the term integration can mean very different things. --C. Stephen Evans, University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Baylor University, author of Kierkegaard and Spirituality: Accountability as the Meaning of Human Existence