Radical Grace
Subtitle: How Belief in a Benevolent God Benefits Our Health (Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: October 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780313348167
Subjects: Spirituality; Doctrinal Theology; Religion; Psychology; General; Philosophy; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Christian Theology - General; Spirituality - General; Christianity; Health; Religious aspects
Description: "This book contends that all health - mental and physical - is shaped, for good or ill, by our spiritual, theological, and psychological notions about the nature of God, and by the way we form an outlook on life as a result of these notions. Across history, a large percentage of people have believed that God is a threat, an attitude Ellens describes as "sick gods created through pathological beliefs," or "sick gods that make sick people." But Ellens grounds his brighter perspective in this text on God as a source of unconditional grace and goodwill, then illuminates the effect this perspective has on people who have incorporated it into their minds and lives."--Jacket.