The integration view operates within professional counseling type settings, but this view is more involved on the local church level, counseling centers, and school level. The Christian Psychology view is focused on the development of distinctly Christian psychological theories. This is accomplished by placing a high view on scriptures, "Much of the foundational work in Christian psychology will therefore require a careful reading of scripture" (Johnson, p.155). This view, from a cursory glance, will appear not much different from postmodern psychology. The difference will be seen in the worldview from which it is approached. Once again, like the previous views this view places much weight in scientific research. This view will differ with regard to how society influences behavior. It focuses more on healing the soul and counseling in general. The central beliefs are that God is at the core of life, and people are part of an unfolding revelation of God's glory through creation. This view believes that we are created in the image of God. It also tells us that via the Fall recorded in Genesis, we are sinners separated from God. It concludes that we can only be redeemed through the redemptive work of Christ. this view has a distinctive eschatological view. This view also contains a multi-level model of human nature. We are soul and body. Within the soul resides the spiritual, ethical, and psychosocial part of our nature while the body is the biological part of our nature.
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