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Christian counseling began between the late 1960s and early 1970s [4] with the Biblical Counseling Movement directed by Jay E. Adams. Adams's 1970 book Competent to Counsel [ 5 ] advocated a Christian-based approach which differed from the psychological and psychiatric solutions of the time.
Jay Edward Adams (January 30, 1929 – November 14, 2020) was an American Presbyterian preacher and author who was known for his development in the mid and late 20th century of counseling based on Biblical scriptures. He published more than 100 books related to this topic, which have been translated into 16 languages.
Nouthetic counseling (Greek: noutheteo, 'to admonish') is a form of evangelical Protestant pastoral counseling based upon conservative evangelical interpretation of the Bible. It repudiates mainstream psychology and psychiatry as humanistic , fundamentally opposed to Christianity , and radically secular .
The ERV caused a slight bit of controversy among a small number of lay members of the Churches of Christ (the WBTC is an outreach of the Churches of Christ).Goebel Music wrote a lengthy book critiquing this translation titled "Easy-to-Read Version: Easy to Read or Easy to Mislead?", criticizing the ERV's method of translation, textual basis, and wording of certain passages. [5]
The Masoretic Text is the medieval version of the Tanakh—written in Hebrew and Aramaic—that is considered the authoritative text of the Hebrew Bible by modern Rabbinic Judaism. The Septuagint is a Koine Greek translation of the Tanakh from the third and second centuries BCE; it largely overlaps with the Hebrew Bible.
Pastoral counseling is a branch of counseling in which psychologically trained ministers, rabbis, priests, imams, and other persons provide therapy services.Pastoral counselors often integrate modern psychological thought and method with traditional religious training in an effort to address psychospiritual issues in addition to the traditional spectrum of counseling services.
Allegorical interpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the literal sense.
What about nouthetic counseling: A question and answer book with history, help and hope for the Christian counselor. Baker Book House. 1977. ISBN 0-8010-0114-5. Matters of Concern to Christian Counselors. Zondervan. 1977. ISBN 0-8010-0138-2. Lectures of Counseling. Baker Book House. 1978. ISBN 0-8010-0122-6. Four Weeks with God and Your ...