2 Discuss the reconciliaton process in regards to Christians

2. Discuss the reconciliaton process in regards to Christians from a pscyology standpoint and a business one. How could it be actualized for a real- world situation? Please give two examples in our personal lives as Christians and in the businessworld in regards employees as Christians.
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Solution

There is an ideological war raging today with psychology as the main battlefield. This war is being fought on two fronts:

       The key question is whether or not psychology is based on a world view which opposes the essentials of the Christian faith. This includes the assumptions of psychology of materialism, rationalism, determinism and relativism, and that humans are not self-aware, responsible and free moral agents. Christians cannot accept these philosophical assumptions and at the same time remain true to their faith.

     Within Christianity there is a wide variety of opinions concerning the validity of psychology in general and psychotherapy in particular. One extreme camp believes that only the Bible can be used in determining truth and that science cannot be trusted. At the other extreme are those who are willing to accept truth as determined by science even when it clearly contradicts Biblical interpretation.

     Johnson and Jones (2000) express the issue succinctly: \"Christians have taken different positions regarding the extent to which they should have anything to do with modern psychology, some embracing it wholeheartedly, others rejecting it just as vigorously, and many others falling somewhere between\"

     According to my view, I explore the issue of integrating psychology and Christianity. I first describe the key issues in understanding this controversy. Then I provide an overview of the work already done by Christian psychologists in developing a \"Christian Psychology.\" One of the difficulties with accessing the validity of any particular system of psychotherapy is that \"beneath every technique is a counselling theory, and beneath every theory is a worldview.\"

For example: It arises out of differing worldviews occurs when we consider psychology from a Christian perspective. The philosophical worldview of Christianity is no more arbitrary than that of psychology in particular and of science in general and yet secular scientists are horrified by what they often consider to be the irrational and fuzzy thinking of Christians.

     Christians who study psychology is immediately confronted with truth claims that conflict with the Bible and which are opposed to Christian theology and doctrines. Thoughtful and honest Christians must determine how to resolve the conflicts in order to integrate psychology and Christianity. Here are three options that Christians can adopt:

     The process of integrating psychology and Christianity is currently an active area for discussion among Christian psychologists. So I want to go with a simple example for understand briefly about this problem.

For example: In an observation that certainly applies to the process of integration, Gary Collins comments that \"few who believe in the integration of faith and learning would absorb and integrate these secular worldviews without weeding out the values, assumptions and methods that are at odds with biblical truth\" (Johnson, 2000, p. 187). Powlison observes that common attempts to integrate psychology and Christianity \"treat biblical thinking as a screen, filter, or boundary through which a Christian sifts psychology\'s claims to knowledge and efficacy, attempting to weed out the bad from the good\" (Johnson, 2000, p. 192).

      The common theme is to take the good and exclude the bad, which are we have to agree. \"Each model picks up certain elements of understanding of the human person that either is explicitly present in or at least fits with (i.e., is not genuinely logically contradictory with) the scriptural revelation we have from God [i.e., the Bible]\".