A Book Proposal on Biblical Counseling and the Body (The Embodied-Soul)
Because I collate a lot of biblical counseling resources (over 1,000 in The Annual Guide to Biblical Counseling, and over 400 in 400+ Resources on Biblical Counseling and Psychology-Related Research), I’m often asked:
Where is there a glaring gap in biblical counseling literature?
How would you answer that question?
The title of today’s post should clue you in to how I would answer it. I’m increasingly convinced that the biblical counseling world has a great need for a comprehensive resource about the body—the embodied-soul. A working title might be:
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Becoming Soul Physicians of Embodied-Souls
I shared more about this here: 10 Questions About Biblical Counseling and the Body.
A Table of Contents for a Biblical Counseling Book on the Embodied-Soul
The book would be a gospel-centered, theologically-saturated, relationship-focused, church history-informed, neuroscience-research-aware approach to becoming soul physicians of embodied-souls. Here’s a table of contents for Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Becoming Soul Physicians of Embodied-Souls.
Section 1: A Theological Anthropology
That’s a fancy term: Theological Anthropology. It simply means a biblical theology of how God designed us as embodied-souls. Biblically, a human being is one whole being with a variety of
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