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Possibility of Psychological Bible Interpretation for Healing Sermon for by Church Community and Its Prospects: Focusing on Object Relations Theory

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2015, 23(1), pp.75-101
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2015.23.1.75
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : October 15, 2014
  • Accepted : November 25, 2014

Kim Mi Kyung 1

1한영신학대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

In the meantime, Korean churches have grown and developed but are facing multifaceted and fierce criticism outside the churches about Christianity maximized in recent years. Thus, churches are requested to recover the church’s original identity laid aside as a secondary issue by Developmentism until now from inside and outside. Therefore, as part to recover the true nature of churches, pastoral care should be given through healing sermon. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the directions and possibility of healing sermons in several ways in the context of the object relations theory. The object relations theory, a way of modern psychoanalysis, is capable of shedding a light on a relation between humans and the God, and furthermore shares the perspectives and contexts with the Christianity regarding the human pathology. It is necessary that churches provide consolation, encouragement and an opportunity to refuel life to the congregation and heal selves through a sermon as a transitional object. Sermons, based upon the Bible, need to deal with more realistic problems that can gain the sympathy from the congregation living hard lives in the modern times. In other words, an understanding of their lives and psychological status is required for the healing through sermons. This study proposed the important theological possibility that can bring therapeutic effects around the elements that can reflectively accept in psychological insight of Kohut’s self psychology and various object relations theories.

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