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Faith in Psychology and Counseling

Keynote speakers:

Larry Crabb Paul Vitz Alvin Plantinga

Marva Dawn

Siang Yang Tan

Conference Overview

Our aim in this conference is the overturning of one of the most significant dualisms currently hindering Christian scholarship and practice in psychology: the opposition of faith to many other aspects of human life: reason and knowing in general, empirical research, psychological theory, counseling, the mental health profession, and morality and good works.

Properly understood, for the Christian, faith is a fundamental component of life and the knowing process. Faith is the “atmosphere the Christian breathes,” and a necessary corollary of mature Christian expression in every area of life. Historically, faith has been understood to be a basic stance of the Christian life, foundational to knowing and helping people.

Admittedly, the issues are complex, and in earlier eras understanding how faith relates to the rest of human life was always a challenge. But the training and practice of Christians within a secular intellectual and educational context over the last 100 years has made the task much more difficult. Within modernity, faith is a subjective, irrational value or opinion; it is considered to be essentially alien to empirical work in psychology; and it is often viewed as unethical to bring it into the counseling office. If the project of a Christian psychology is to be realized, faith has to be restored to the role it has held in classic Christian thought.

Please join us for this opportunity to further our Christian understanding of psychology and counseling, and please pray for the conference.

Interested in Exhibiting?

If you are interested in exhibiting at the SCP conference please contact Amy Harris at Amy@aacc.net