Reviving Christian Humanism: The New Conversation on Spirituality, Theology, and Psychology

by Don S. Browning

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 2010

Overview

Is there a future for intellectually honest faith at the service of humankind? Esteemed theologian Don S. Browning strongly argues that there is, and he here offers a manifesto for a new religious humanism.

Browning argues that the time is right for religious intellectuals in conversation with the social sciences to reinvigorate the deep humanistic strands of the grand religions and enter into global interfaith dialogue on that basis. Concentrating on the Christian heritage, he draws on such diverse disciplines to envision a broader canvas for psychology, a keener theological use of new insights from psychology, a more complex understanding of how personal change is fostered, a recognition of the indispensable role of institutions in personal formation and ethical deliberation, and in the end, a deeper spirituality that directly feeds the common human endeavor and the public good.

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Key Features

• Draws on diverse disciplines
• Offers a manifesto for a new religious humanism
• Suggests religious intellectuals engage in conversation with the social sciences

Table of Contents

• Science, Religion, and a Revived Religious Humanism
• Broadening Psychology, Refining Theology
• Change and Critique in Psychology, Therapy, and Spirituality
• Religion, Science, and the New Spirituality
• Mental Health and Spirituality: Their Institutional Embodiment
• Institutional Ethics and Families: Therapy, Law, and Religion

Product Details

• Title: Reviving Christian Humanism: The New Conversation on Spirituality, Theology, and Psychology
• Author: Don S. Browning
• Series: Theology and the Sciences
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 192
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Psychology and religion; Humanism; Christianity › Philosophy; Religion and science
• Resource ID: LLS:REVVNGCHRBROWNING
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:24:57Z

About Don S. Browning

Don Browning has interests in the relation of religious thought to the social sciences, specifically in the way theological ethics may employ sociology, psychology, and the social scientific study of religion. A student of psychology, he has special interests in psychoanalysis, self-psychology, object-relations theory, and evolutionary psychology, and has written on the cultural, theological, and ethical analysis of the modern psychologies. An interest in issues and methods in practical theology led to his work, A Fundamental Practical Theology: With Descriptive and Strategic Proposals. As Director of the Lilly Project on Religion, Culture, and the Family, Professor Browning is now working on issues pertaining to the shape and future of the postmodern family. He has co-authored From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate. He is an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). (Retired from teaching, Winter 2002) “Critical Familism, Civil Society, and the Law,” Religion and Culture Web Forum, June 2003. Relation of to the specifically in the Way May Employ and the