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Dr. Clyde M. Narramore (November 25, 1916 – July 27, 2015) [1] was an American author of more than 100 books and booklets, including the best sellers The Psychology of Counseling, The Encyclopedia of Psychological Problems and This Way to Happiness. [2]
When Helping Hurts uses the Bible and the Great Commission to state that the church's mission should be to help the poor and the desolate. Corbett and Fikkert state that the definition of poverty will change depending on who is defining it, with the poor defining it through the psychological and social scope while more wealthy churches emphasize the lack of material things or a geographical ...
Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was an American Protestant clergyman, [1] and an author best known for popularizing the concept of positive thinking, especially through his best-selling book The Power of Positive Thinking (1952).
G. C. Dilsaver is considered "the father of Christian psychology" according to the Catholic University of America, [6] but the authors of Psychology and the Church: Critical Questions/Crucial Answers suggest that Norman Vincent Peale pioneered the merger of the two fields. Clyde M. Narramore had a major impact on the field of Christian ...
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers is a book by historian of American religion David L. Holmes from the College of William & Mary. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9 ...
A metareview of 850 research papers on Religion in the United States concluded that "the majority of well-conducted studies found that higher levels of religious involvement are positively associated with indicators of psychological well-being (life satisfaction, happiness, positive affect, and higher morale) and with less depression, suicidal ...
Kuyper based the idea of sphere sovereignty partially on the Christian view of existence coram Deo, every part of human life exists equally and directly "before the face of God." For Kuyper, this meant that sphere sovereignty involved a certain form of separation of church and state and a separation of state and other societal spheres, or anti ...
Statistically, Eastern Orthodox Christians are among the wealthiest Christian denominations in the United States, [39] and they also tend to be better educated than most other religious groups in America, in the sense that they have a high number of graduate (68%) and post-graduate degrees (28%) per capita.