Original scientific paper
Theology and psychology: potentialities and limits of dialogue
Anđelko Domazet
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split
Abstract
How to conceive a fruitful dialogue between Christian theology
and psychology? The author is trying to answer the question
from theological point of view. The history of relationship
between theology and psychology is evident in a wider context of
centuries-old dispute on the relations between faith and science
and on the method of scientific and theological cognition.
The work consists of three parts. In the first part the author
presents two in principle different possibilities of determining
the relationship between theology and psychology, and these
are: “the model of exclusiveness”, “the model of identification”.
In the second part of the work the relation between theology
and psychology is viewed from the perspective of integral
anthropology in which man is observed as a physical-psychicalsocial-
spiritual being.
The theological anthropology, as different from philosophical,
medical or biological anthropology, deals with definite. In
the final part, the author counts some challenges of interdisciplinary
dialogue between theology and psychology for pastoral
work, whwrw each of the two disciplines bringes its own praxis
into mutual excange - spiritual charge, i.e. psichotherapy.
Keywords
theology; psychology; interdisciplinary dialogue; anthropology; pastoral psychology; religious experience
Hrčak ID:
91381
URI
Publication date:
14.3.2008.
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