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Entwistle Book Review
Alesia M Shaw
Liberty University

Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity” tells about the integrating Christianity and Psychology. According to author Entwistle (2010) he discusses integration and how they are combined. The book of God’s word is referred to the Bible and the book of Psychology is the work that reflects his deeds that is written throughout God’s work. In the text it included five different models of integration which are: enemies, spies, colonialists, neutral parties and allies as subjects of one (p. 154). The enemies model take the position on the psychology of human beings verses the theology of human beings, so therefore this model sees Christians and psychology as enemies that should be kept separate from one another. The spies model, unlike the enemies model does not reject religion, but does take only what works for them. Psychology would enter the Christian world and take parts of the religion concepts that they feel would work well them. Just as a person would take part of the bible and read what they believe only applies to them. The colonialist model has a superficial acquaintance with psychological theories, they the colonist does not exert signification effort towards understanding how psychology and Christianity both express truth or how they can both gain a larger picture of how human nature is functioned (p.137-145).From my understanding Entwistle (2010) believes that psychology works well with religion as long as religion obeys or is superior to psychology.
Neutral parties’ model states that as long as they both respect each other’s boundaries there should be some level of respect. It allows psychological theories and finding to exist on their own ...

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... correctly. Thirdly is to further my education in Christian counseling and to use what God has installed in me. I believe when you apply your faith into Christianity and psychology it will be beneficial to you as well as your client by allowing the Holy Spirit to use you and guide you while you counsel. It’s also important to know that both Christianity and psychology is a part of Gods truth to help others as well as ourselves. We are all put on this earth to serve and minister to those who need to be ministered too. When the two books are integrated, we must know that we must not use them separately because they both complement each other and they can help reach those people who are believers as well as those who are unbelievers.

Reference
Entwistle, D.N. (2010). Integrative Approaches to psychology and Christianity (2nd ed).
Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock

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