Seeing with New Eyes: Counseling and the Human Condition through the Lens of Scripture

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Publisher's Description

Does God have a take on counseling? Does his gaze have anything to say about the myriad issues counseling deals with? Has he communicated the way he thinks?

David Powlison helps us to see God in the counseling context, training us to see what God sees, hear what he says, and do what he does. As we look through this Scriptural lens, we will become more thoughtful in understanding people and more skillful in curing souls.

All counseling models—whether secular or religious—are essentially differing systems of "pastoral care and cure." When you include God in the picture, it changes the way we think about "problem," "diagnosis," "strategy," "solution," "helpful," "cure," "insight," and "counselor." Learn how the Bible's truth competes head-to-head with other counseling models and changes what we live for and how we live.

About the Author

David Powlison is the editor of the Journal of Biblical Counseling and a member of the faculty and counseling staff at the Christian Counseling and Education Foundation (CCEF) in Glenside, Pennsylvania. He also teaches at Westminster Theological Seminary.

Powlison grew up in Hawaii and graduated from Harvard University. He became a Christian while working in a psychiatric hospital, through the ministry of his college friend, Bob Kramer, to whom this book is dedicated. Powlison earned an MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary, and an MA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.

Powlison is the author of Power Encounters: Reclaiming Spiritual Warfare; Competent to Counsel?: The History of a Conservative Protestant Anti-Psychiatry Movement; and numerous articles. He has written many booklets in the Resources for Changing Lives series, and edited Counsel the Word. Powlison is also a board member and Fellow of the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors.