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Relationship Between Emotion and Morality in Christian Counseling

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2014, 22(1), pp.79-109
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2014.22.1.79
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : April 20, 2014
  • Accepted : May 10, 2014

Eun Jin Kwoag 1

1아세아연합신학대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

One of the most important objectives of Christian counseling is the promotion of changes. Counseling is constructive, infusing the counselees with encouragement to adopt the Bible-oriented behavior and attitude while providing guidance. In other words, Christian counseling stimulates the changes and provides motivation to change the behavior and attitude. Motivation provides stimulation to make the ideas translated into actions, sets the direction for behavior, and enables the selection, and furthermore, infuses the internal power vital for sustaining specific behavior. Emotion is the signal that allows people to perceive and recognize such motivation. It is the signal system of God, using the internal instinctive senses. Emotion will be the signal assigning the motivation towards moral behavior, if the ground for maintaining the morality and sustaining the moral behavior is underpinned by the ability of humanity to achieve internal change and select sustainable behavioral changes based on motivation. Morality is the norm applicable to the real world where the humanity exists, and requires the discernment and judgment of situation. The perception of reality, which means understating and recognizing the real world, is based on the bedrock of self-awareness. The self-awareness is buttressed by the perceptual ability, and the perception is affected by momentary sensory reaction in the emotional realm. The emotional sensitivity perceived through the body stimulates the perceptual ability, thereby affecting the circumstantial judgment, and ultimately works as discernment. The discernment belongs to the realm of wisdom and gives rise to the motivation for proper judgment. Such circulation implies that the emotional development and moral development are interrelated while the ethical issues are related to emotion. The emotion is necessarily involved in morality, given that the emotion is associated with the importance of morality judgment and moral judgment entailing from moral behavior. That is because one needs to be sensitive to the relationship between one's own or others' emotion and possible behaviors when discerning and determining the situation from moral perspective. Emotion facilitates proper moral self-awareness and influences moral epistemology. In this process, the emotion partially forms the subject matter of moral epistemology. Thus, if the emotional reaction is disregarded or overlooked, the important decisive perspective will be missed and the consequential confusion in judgment would lead to the distortion that would result in the perception of situation from the externally prevailing or unreasonable viewpoint. The emotional holiness and morality which are manifested in the Bible represent the fruits of Gold's integrity and belong to the realm of absolute order. God's integrity has been considered based on His holiness and morality. His emotion also manifests itself as upright, righteous and moral because God is upright, righteous, and moral. In addition, the emotion is good and appropriate because it essentially belongs to God, and it has been made clear that the emotion was given as part of humanity. The biblical emotion is the source of power that leads people towards God's integrity and assigns motivation towards the holy emotion, and therefore requires morality and holiness. It implies that the healthy and restored emotion, which is based on biblical creation, makes humanity moral and holy, thus becoming the wholesome existenceThe holiness and morality of emotion from the standpoint of Christian counseling embody the absolute order witnessed in the Bible, and represent the domain at the center of the relationship with God. The influence of emotion, which affects the moral inference and judgment, manifests itself in conjunction with the interrelated cyclical backgrounds. The ultimate good and morality are related to emotional perception and reaction.

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