{"id":113829,"date":"2024-12-05T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=113829"},"modified":"2024-12-05T05:03:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T11:03:45","slug":"powlison-on-biblical-counseling-and-secular-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=113829","title":{"rendered":"Powlison on Biblical Counseling and Secular Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Word from Bob<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>For a much longer post on Powlison\u2019s views, see, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2024\/09\/david-powlison-common-grace\/\">David Powlison on Common Grace, Biblical Counseling, and Secular Psychology<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The Bible and Extra-Biblical Sources<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In 2007, David Powlison wrote one of his most influential articles: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccef.org\/jbc-article\/cure-of-souls-and-the-modern-psychotherapies\">\u201cCure of Souls (and the Modern Psychotherapies).\u201d<\/a> This is a detailed, thirty-five page article that could easily be a booklet if not a small book. In this article, as the title suggests, Powlison specifically addresses how biblical counselors view, use, and engage with secular psychology theory and practice. Powlison also contrasts how Christian integrative counselors and biblical counselors see the relationship of the Bible to extra-biblical resources.<\/p>\n<p>It is in this article that Powlison introduces his acronyms \u201cCOMPIN\u201d and \u201cVITEX.\u201d COMPIN is Powlison\u2019s summary of the biblical counseling position on secular psychology which states that,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThe Christian faith contains <em>COMPrehensive INternal resources <\/em>to enable us to construct a Christian model of personality, change, and counseling\u201d (11).<\/p>\n<p>The other model\u2014the Christian integrative counseling model\u2014is \u201cVITEX,\u201d which:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cBelieves that secular psychologies must make a <em>VITal EXternal contribution <\/em>in the construction of a Christian model of personality, change, and counseling\u201d (11).<\/p>\n<p>In an article about how Christianity provides comprehensive resources for building a biblical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did David Powlison teach and practice concerning how biblical counselors view and use secular psychology?<br \/>\nThe post Powlison on Biblical Counseling and Secular Psychology appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":113843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[4994,163],"class_list":["post-113829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-common-grace","tag-david-powlison","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/David-Powlison-13-1.jpg?fit=768%2C403&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113844,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113829\/revisions\/113844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}