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Title: Possibilities for a Christian Positive Psychology.
Author : Journal of Psychology and Theology
Release Date : January 22, 2007
Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 213 KB

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Two streams of thought are examined: Nancey Murphy's recently-proposed approach to integrating psychology and theology, and the burgeoning positive psychology movement. Points of congruence and divergence are considered, and the potential for a mutually-advantageous interaction is discussed, with curiosity research serving as an example. Murphy's application of virtue ethics to the question of human flourishing provides positive psychology with a missing teleological component. Positive psychology provides conceptual, methodological, institutional, and applicatory resources that would be valuable to a Christian psychologist who wishes to make use of Murphy's neo-Aristotelian model of human flourishing. **********