Psychology: A Student’s Guide

by Stanton L. Jones

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2014

Overview

In this accessible student’s guide, an experienced professor examines the study of psychology from a distinctly Christian perspective, introducing readers to key issues such as the origins of morality, nature vs. nurture, the relationship between the mind and the brain, and the concept of personal identity. Whether examining the history of psychological reflection, the legacy of the Enlightenment and Darwinism, or the development of modernist psychology, this volume will help students think carefully about the influential ideas that continue to shape discussions about what it means to be human.

Contents

Top Highlights

“truth that we can affirm about humanity is that all of us” (Page 44)

Product Details

• Title: Psychology: A Student’s Guide
• Author: Stanton L. Jones
• Series: Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2014
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christianity › Psychology--Textbooks; Psychology and religion › Textbooks; Psychology › Philosophy--Textbooks
• ISBNs: 9781433539787, 9781433539817, 9781433539794, 9781433539800, 1433539780, 1433539810, 1433539799, 1433539802
• Resource ID: LLS:PSYCHLGYSTDNTGD
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:30:30Z

About Stanton L. Jones

Stanton L. Jones is provost and professor of psychology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. During his tenure as chair of the psychology department (1984-1996), he led the development of Wheaton’s Doctor of Psychology program in clinical psychology. He received his BS in psychology from Texas A & M University in 1976, and his MA (1978) and PhD (1981) in clinical psychology from Arizona State University.

He is a member of the American Psychological Association and served on the Council of Representatives, the central governing body of the APA, representing the Psychology of Religion division from 1999 to 2001. In 1994 he was named a research fellow of the Evangelical Scholars Program of the Pew Foundation. He was a visiting scholar at the Divinity School of the University of Cambridge and a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, for the 1995-1996 academic year.

Jones authored the lead article, “Religion and Psychology,” for the Encyclopedia of Psychology, jointly published in 2000 by the American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press. His article in the March 1994 American Psychologist, titled “A Constructive Relationship for Religion with the Science and Profession of Psychology: Perhaps the Best Model Yet,” was a call for greater respect for and cooperation with religion by secular psychologists. Jones has also written, with his wife, Brenna, a five-book series on sex education in the Christian family called God’s Design for Sex. He is also the coauthor of Modern Psychotherapies (with Richard E. Butman) and Homosexuality: The Use of Scientific Research in the Church’s Moral Debate (with Mark A. Yarhouse), and the editor of Psychology and Christianity: Four Views.