Posted by John (4.240.150.154) on October 25, 2007 at 19:40:02:

In Reply to: Re: Origins of Christotherapy posted by Bernard J. Tyrrell on October 19, 2007 at 16:39:08:

Fr. Tyrrell, I do think that you were the cutting edge of actually writing a book integrating psychology and psychological principles with spirituality and spiritual principles and Catholic teachings! And, even though there are many books out that seem to do this today, they mostly seem more pedestrian and less scholarly from what I have seen in the past although lately I haven't paid much attention. 

My interest at the moment is more the "genetics" of the philosophical and theological positions which resulted in works like Christotherapy.  I see it quite clearly what Edith Stein emphasized in 1930's about psychology having had eliminated from it's view what was not materialistic; this done in the mid 19th century and not until around the time of Rahner and Christotherapy was there much integration of spirituality and psychology of any import precluding of protestants attempts to draw psychological principles from scriptural sayings. At least what was accessible to me as being interested in the area. So, from my point of view there was a pretty big gap of a millenia from St. Augustine to Rahner ( and Christotherapy)!

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