Our broken world is obsessed with finding answers to the problems that plague the inner person. And for good reason, we are broken people living in a fallen world. This obsession spans education, business, and even numerous books and blogs that people read on any given day. We long to know how to be happy, how to feel good, and how to have a meaningful life. Are answers possible? And can our culture find these answers apart from God?
Does the World Have the Answer?
For roughly the past 150 years, secular theorists have claimed that they have answers to help people be happy and function well. At the center of this movement have been psychological personality theories. In his book Psychology as Religion, retired NYU professor of psychology, Paul Vitz, provides an overview of the origin of self-psychology that undergirds so much of self-help. After providing this survey in the first part of the book, Vitz then provides insight into the aims of these theorists whom he believes are trying to create a new religion. He then warns Christians of the dangers of a new syncretism if they embrace these theories.
How Might Paul Vitz’s Book Serve You?
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