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Our Entwistle textbook is enlightening. It is interesting to think that if I had not taken this course, I would be completely clueless to how Christianity and psychology are approached in regards to one another. Before, I did not even know that there was any controversial topics when it came to the two interacting. I have always fallen into the "all truth is God's truth" boat, so I love learning about theology and I also love learning about psychology, but this course has opened up my perspective on how many approaches there actually are. Until you are immersed in figuring out your view on the integration of the two, the topic doesn't really come up, or didn't for me in my day to day. I was caught by surprise when I had a friend become distraught over the fact that I had a Christian psychology course because he was taught that the only thing pure in this world is a Christian perspective and everything else should not be meddled in. This is why this course, and …show more content…

249). All things, all life, and all truth fall under the authority of God. If we believe in God, who possesses all the characteristic and traits he does, how then could we separate the subjects of theology and psychology as one being of God and the other being not. Or having the perspective that the book of God's work has no significance unless filtered through our interpretation of God's word. I love how the text sums it up with, "theology, psychology, and all other areas of inquiry are subjects of One Sovereign" (Entwistle, 2015, p. 249). The Allies model takes out the hierarchy from within the subject and replaces it the Higher One. The model does have a pause and says, "that we must be vigilant about ways that secular assumptions often shape the discipline of psychology in ways that may require critique from a Christian perspective" (Entwistle, 2015, p.

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