2018, Vol.26, No.2

Journal of Counseling and Gospel 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.55

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

The purpose of this study is to present the doctrine of common grace as a ground of the integration of Theology and Psychology in order to overcome the weakness of general revelation. Historically, several scholars have presented general revelation as a foundation for integration on the basis of the old saying, “truth is God’s truth.” The claim that psychological research, which is a realm of general revelation, can achieve unity with God’s truth was disputed by arguing that the purpose of general revelation is to reveal the existence of God through the created world and to prevent people from excusing that they did not know God. In addition, the attempt to include the findings of other sciences into general revelation was negated by the analysis of hermeneutics for general revelation. God gives common grace to human beings by bestowing them with reason and understanding despite of the Fall through the Holy Spirit. Also, this paper presented the fitness of common grace as a foundation for the integration of Theology and Psychology by examining the statements of Calvin, Bavinck, and Kuyper who argued that Theology develops by the help of common grace and it can gain benefit through the psychological research.

This study discusses the situation where, within the parent-child relationship characterized by a high dependence in the childhood and adolescence period, the experience of attachment trauma such as abuse and neglect may continue to influence the subsequent development of children. Further, this study examines the mechanisms of treatment designed to alleviate attachment trauma beyond the relationship between attachment trauma and maladjustment. To that end, the comprehensive concept of attachment trauma is examined such as physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, and psychosocial neglect experienced due to parents and other attachment-related persons. In addition, existing studies on attachment trauma focused on their symptoms, psychopathology and other negative effects, but the positive sides of the experience of trauma were discovered, so the relationship between attachment trauma and posttraumatic growth is examined because there are cases where the negative effects of the experience of trauma were overcome, thus resulting in achieving inner growth, before cases of overcoming the negative effects of development orbit are examined through people in the Bible. Finally, it is reported that the detrimental damage of attachment trauma have effects on the psychological symptom, physical symptom, depressions, and interpersonal relations of an affected person even after he or she became an adult, and that influence continues, so this study discusses a need for Christian counselors to have take concern in attachment trauma and get involved in counseling. This study is significant in that Christian counseling getting involved in attachment trauma offers practical implications.

The purpose of this study is to suggest a biblical approach for applying cognitive therapy to Christian counseling. More concretely, it investigates the biblical meaning of “heart” found in the Bible, and then, suggests an biblical approach to add motivational aspect to existing Christian cognitive approaches. To achieve this purpose, it first evaluates existing Christian cognitive approaches, and then claims the necessity of a biblical cognitive approach that may bring deeper changes beyond cognitive level in person’s life. Suggesting that David Powlison’s emphasis on heart may provide an alternative approach, the study investigates the biblical meaning of heart. The result of the investigation shows that biblical meanings of heart includes areas of cognition and emotion in addition to motivational aspect, and suggests that if these three aspects are explored together, it brings deeper biblical change in person’s life. The study states the benefit of this approach that the alternative approach may overcome reductionistic tendency of current biblical counseling. The study provides examples to apply this approach by analysing two biblical events in the light of the suggested approach. In conclusion, the study suggests a further research that employs single case study that investigates if this approach is workable in real counseling sessions.