The Nexus of Psychology and Religion

[mitchellmckain (Scientist and Christian)]

@GtownPhil

I would like to add more but first would like to hear any thoughts you might have on the connection of psychology and theology.

Ok… let’s see

1. I have a largely psychological understanding of sin as self destructive habits.
2. Accordingly I treat the significance of the garden Adam and Eve story as psychological rather than anything to do with magical fruit.
3. I have a psychological understanding of how Jesus’ death on the cross affects salvation, particularly opposed to excessively literal treatments of the metaphors in the Bible.

@GtownPhil

Also I previously cited the works of Julian Jaynes and Evan Harris Walker. Are you familiar with their works?

Nope. I am a physicist not a psychologist. Thus my academic familiarity with things in psychology is very much at an introductory level.