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What Pastors Need to Recover About Mental Health – Review: ‘Seeking Sanctuary, Finding Shalom’

By Filings on Thu, 06/11/26
Church & Ministry
Mental Health
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“Swinton, chair in divinity and religious studies at King’s College, University of Aberdeen, doesn’t merely critique therapeutic culture. He gives pastors something better—the biblical category of shalom. He offers a vision of mental health that exposes the poverty of our culture’s therapeutic assumptions and gives the church genuinely different categories for human flourishing.” - TGC

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Bert Perry

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Fri, 06/12/26

Anybody read the book? I will concede that "shalom" appears in all kinds of crazy places in the Old Testament--names, other words, etc..--and hence to neglect that as a likely mental health category probably misses the boat. I also remember a book I've got called "Psychotherapy from the New Testament", that I need to understand better. Not quite sure where we can take this, though.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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