A Word from Bob
In addition to today’s post, here are some other resources I’ve posted lately related to Jay Adams and Nouthetic Counseling:
Jay Adams, Nouthetic Counseling, and Neuroscience A Concise History of Jay Adams’s Launch of the Modern Nouthetic Counseling Movement Noutheteo/Nouthesia, Part 1: Caring, Cautionary Communication to Ward Off Wandering Noutheteo/Nouthesia, Part 2: What Is Nouthetic Counseling? Noutheteo/Nouthesia, Part 3: The Comparative Significance of the Noutheteo/Nouthesia Word Group Jay Adams and the Relationship Between Nouthetic Counseling and Secular Psychology
This past week I re-read a classic article of The Journal of Biblical Counseling from 1993. The title:
“25 Years of Biblical Counseling: An Interview with Jay Adams and John Bettler Conducted by David Powlison.”[1]
It’s a fascinating interview from a number of perspectives.
About half-way through the interview, John Bettler brings up a difference between him and Jay Adams in how they frame the issue of the relationship between nouthetic counseling and secular psychology.
In the course of the discussion Adams, Bettler, and Powlison suggest 6 “R” words that might label what nouthetic counselors do with secular psychology:
Recycle It Reinterpret It Reshape It Reconcile It Redeem It Recast It #1: What Does
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