Contrasting Views on Trauma and the Body
A biblical counselor on X recently wrote,
“Your response to trauma reveals what has been stored in your heart, not your body.”
That sentence offers a concise summary of a large amount of thinking coming from some segments of our modern biblical counseling movement. It succinctly captures common themes that are important for us to consider about traumatic suffering and the embodied-soul.
My post today is less about that one sentence. It is more about how that sentence is a catalyst.
Secular behavioral psychology was a catalyst for Jay Adams to study the Scriptures further. Trauma theory is a catalyst for many biblical counselors to examine the Bible more robustly.
The recent statement on X was a catalyst for me to collate today’s summary of years of biblical study about embodied-souls and traumatic suffering. For my thinking on these matters, see, 128 Free Resources for Counseling the Whole Person: Soul Physicians of Embodied-Souls.
My summary has grown from a blog-size interaction to an article-length interaction. So, perhaps a snapshot of my biblical theology of embodied-souls and traumatic suffering might be helpful:
“Our response to trauma reveals how we experience, remember (‘store’), and respond
To continue...read the full-length post originally published on this site.
