Special Issue Introduction: "One in Christ Jesus" : Racial Disunity and the Need for Integrative Programs to Improve Racial Unity Among Christian Populations
This special issue of the Journal of Psychology and Christianity (JPC) includes five original, integrative programs that combine secular psychological theory and research with Christianity and are designed to increase racial unity within the Body of Christ. In the introduction article, we describe c...
| Subtitles: | "Special issue: Racial unity among Christian populations" |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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Journal of psychology and christianity
Year: 2023, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 72-78 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Rassenkonflikt
/ Unity
/ Christian
/ Psychology
/ Social justice
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology NBN Ecclesiology NCC Social ethics ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Twenty-first century
B Concord B Psychological research B Worldview B Psychological Literature B Jesus Christ B Christian Communities |
| Summary: | This special issue of the Journal of Psychology and Christianity (JPC) includes five original, integrative programs that combine secular psychological theory and research with Christianity and are designed to increase racial unity within the Body of Christ. In the introduction article, we describe current theoretical and empirical approaches within the secular psychology literature for decreasing problems in cross-racial relationships and healing the trauma associated with racism. We then explore the need for biblically-tethered, evidence-based programs that address the problem of and solution to racial disunity within the Christian Church. In turn, we discuss the importance of integrative models for addressing these issues that are dually founded on a biblical worldview and anchored to the current secular psychology literature. Finally, we briefly summarize the five articles in the special issue, with each contribution describing an original, theoretically-derived program to increase racial unity among Christian adult populations. Ultimately, our hope is that each stand-alone, integrative approach will be empirically investigated at a later point in time to cultivate and maintain more racially diverse, cohesive Christian communities in the 21st century. |
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| ISSN: | 0733-4273 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of psychology and christianity
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