Radical Grace: How Belief in a Benevolent God Benefits Our Health

Cover\r......Page 1
Radical Grace\r......Page 4
Copyright\r......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Grace and Health......Page 14
chapter 1 God’s Health and Human Health......Page 22
chapter 2 A Psychotheology of Illness and Health......Page 32
chapter 3 Anxiety and the Rise of Religious Experience......Page 50
chapter 4 The Bible and Human Health......Page 62
chapter 5 Modern Notions about Human Nature......Page 76
chapter 6 Psychology and Spiritual Conversion......Page 85
chapter 7 Communication as Psychological Healing......Page 109
chapter 8 A Psychotheology of Communication......Page 123
chapter 9 Story as Psychotherapy......Page 133
chapter 10 Psychological Stress as a Way to Spirituality......Page 154
chapter 11 The Essence of Psychospiritual Health: Life and Grace......Page 167
chapter 12 Radical Grace: Psychological Implications and Applications......Page 179
chapter 13 The Psychospiritual Health of the Healer......Page 188
chapter 14 Grace Theology in Psychotherapy......Page 210
Conclusion: Summing Up—Grace and Health......Page 226
Series Afterword by J. Harold Ellens......Page 228
Bibliography......Page 232
Index......Page 238