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Menu of Articles Redemptive Therapy is based on the premise that wholeness in human functioning is not possible apart from the direct intervention of a personal God. In this issue, Dr. Morris argues a scientific approach to psycho-spiritual healing based on the integrity of the reality of God and his concern for human trauma. What was the real sin of Eden? The roots of legalism go back a long way. For millennia past remembering, men have sought structure for their lives. They have wanted to know the "rules." This gives one a certain (and possibly false) sense of security. If you know the rules, you know what to do. You are in control. Adam sought these selfsame rules. He did not need to know good and evil, he had only to love.
But he was drawn to the possibilities of such knowledge. He was as susceptible to the suggestion
of the serpent as was Eve. The serpent suggested that power and influence -- control -- was at the
heart of the knowledge of good and evil. To know the rules meant to control. Like God himself controls.
Clearly, Redemptive Therapy has the burden of facing what might be construed as a credibility problem with the professional community of physicians, attorneys, ministers and other mental health practitioners. What goes on in the offices of a Redemptive Therapy counselor? Fair question. This issue attempts to answer by presenting certain clinical principles by which a Redemptive Therapist is guided. "Love is a Decision!" or so Scott Peck, James Dobson and others say. The idea has caught on. It is now safe to say that most believers accept this opinion as basic to the Christian concept of love. After all, we all know that agape is God's kind of love and that is the kind of love with which he loves us, that we hold for him and for one another. It has not always been so. This issue explores what the writer feels to be a more satisfying understanding of love and its function among us than what has now become the conventional viewpoint. |
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