2013, Vol.21, No.

Journal of Counseling and Gospel 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.55

pISSN : 1739-0745 / eISSN : 2799-6530
https://journal.kci.go.kr/jocag

This article contains the effort to find out the nature of Christian counseling as a discipline. The author employed the methodology of literature review for the study. The author reviewed literatures in two different areas. One is Christian counseling scholars' studies which are the efforts of integrating psychology with theology or Christianity. The other is general counseling scholar's studies which are the efforts to define the structure of counseling as a discipline. The followings are the results of the research. First, scholars have defined the Christian counseling as a discipline of dialectical relationship between psychology and Christianity. Secondly, counseling has been defined as a discipline with synthetical nature founded by various disciplines. Thirdly, Christian counseling is a synthetical and integrative discipline beyond integration of psychology with Christianity. Fourthly, the theory of transcendental counseling is an example to prove Christian counseling as a synthetical and integrative model. Followings are some suggestions for Christian counselors to develop Christian counseling more coherently as a discipline. 1) Christian counselors have to develop the theoretical framework based on evangelical faith and world-view. 2) Christian counselors have to clarify the biblical perspective on human nature. 3) Christian counselors have to integrate theory and practice, so called 'clinical integration.'

The central aim of this study focuses on proposing an integrative holistic healing model, related to the Kingdom of God, for the purpose of guarantying the identity and efficiency of the Christian holistic healing. Recently, although various types of holistic healing ministries have been peformed among many parishioners in the Korean Church, we can not deny there have been a lot of negative effects and victims, which may be due to irrelevant integration of theology and psychology in holistic healing approaches. According to theological examination of anthropology, we notice that a human being should be considered as a whole person, whose spiritual, psychological, physical, socio-cultural, intellectual, emotional, volitional dimensions are so organically intermingled that they cannot be separated in substantial level. In the light of theological understanding of whole person and the Kingdom of God, which can be used as major theological frameworks of holistic healing in the Christian Counseling, several holistic healing models are explored. Finally, an integrative holistic healing model is established and proposed, in which a whole person is considered as a eschatological being under the recreational work of God. Within this model, the separation of various dimensions of a whole person is allowed only in conceptual and functional level, while the work of the kingdom of God is emphasized.

Death itself is fair to everyone, but a dying state, all about the fear of death, so unlikely to death, there is a need to study the attitudes. This study of the Christian religious orientation and attitudes toward death by age, gender attitudes and was to study the relationship. Five factors of death attitude were investigated in this study: death avoidance, fear for death process, fear for afterlife, neutral acceptance and approach acceptance. And two types of religious life were selected: intrinsic and extrinsic types. To this end, a survey of 331 people adults conducted research results are as follows. First, men have a tendency of women is higher than extrinsic, women, the higher the age, the higher extrinsic orientation. Second, the fear for death process and the fear for afterlife levels increased with increasing age. Third, The higher the intrinsic propensity showed a decreasing relationship fear for afterlife, fear for death process. Conversely, the increase of extrinsic orientation relationship that these fears were increased. Therefore, the Christians and the life of faith is not satisfied with that, intrinsic religious orientation will need to have.