Current Discussions in the Modern Nouthetic Biblical Counseling Movement (MNBCM)
Recently, the modern nouthetic biblical counseling movement (MNBCM) has been claiming that biblically counseling informed by the world’s research and ideas is a deviation from the history of the MNBCM. MNBCM leaders have stated that to be a clinically-informed biblical counselor (CIBC), or a trauma-informed biblical counselor (TIBC), or a neuroscience-informed biblical counselor (NIBC) is to depart from the past fifty years of the MNBCM.
I believe this claim to be historically false.
In today’s post, I begin collating historical information supporting the fact that the modern nouthetic biblical counseling movement (MNBCM) has always been:
INC: Informed-Nouthetic Counseling.
In today’s post, I begin to show, historically, that the modern nouthetic counseling movement has been:
BINC: Behaviorism-Informed Nouthetic Counseling NINC: Neuroscience-Informed Nouthetic Counseling PINC: Psychology-Informed Nouthetic Counseling CGINC: Common Grace-Informed Nouthetic Counseling CBRINC: Co-Belligerent-Research-Informed Nouthetic Counseling What I Am Not Saying
I am not saying that the modern nouthetic biblical counseling movement has been “integrationist.”
I do not believe that being informed by neuroscience, or behavioral psychology, or research psychology, or psychological theory, or common grace insights, or descriptive research, or trauma research or theory, or clinical research or
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