Jay Adams and the “Catalytic” Use of Extra-Biblical Information
Jay Adams frequently spoke of secular psychology as a “catalyst” for his thinking. Adams sought to biblically think through current concepts in the world of science and psychology.
Adams was psychology-informed and neuroscience-informed. His copious study of secular thinking prompted him to return to Scripture with more specific questions and a more specific focus.
The Modern Biblical Counseling Movement and the Catalytic Impact of Trauma-Informed Care
I believe that God, in His affectionate sovereignty, is using the secular world’s focus on trauma-informed care, plus numerous biblical counselors focusing on caring for the traumatized, as a catalyst to motivate our modern biblical counseling movement to develop a more robust approach to soul care for traumatic suffering.
That catalytic impact could continue. Specifically, a more informed understanding of current thinking on trauma could be a catalyst for the modern biblical counseling movement to examine biblically:
What it means to be a soul physician of embodied-souls for those who have experience traumatic-suffering. How the Bible might distinguish between the broader category of “general suffering” and the more specific category of “trauma/traumatic-suffering.” Some Sample Catalytic Questions
Some of the catalytic questions that current
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