Hearing Visions and Seeing Voices

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Historical and Conceptual Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction to Historical and Conceptual Issues

      • Gerrit Glas

      Pages 3-7

   3. Psychiatry and Religion

      • Herman M. Van Praag

      Pages 9-19

   4. Biblical Narratives as History

      • C. Stephen Evans

      Pages 21-34

3. Prophecy: Theological and Psychological Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Introduction to ,Prophecy

      • Gerrit Glas

      Pages 37-40

   3. The Dynamics of Prophecy in the Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel

      • Neil Gillman

      Pages 41-51

   4. The Prophets as Persons

      • Bob Becking

      Pages 53-63

   5. Jeremiah Interpreted

      • Bryna Jocheved Levy

      Pages 65-85

4. Martyrdom: Theological and Psychological Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Introduction to Martyrdom

      • Gerrit Glas

      Pages 89-92

   3. Martyrdom

      • Hyam Z.L. Maccoby

      Pages 93-104

   4. The Martyrdom of Paul

      • Jakob Van Bruggen

      Pages 105-113

   5. Spiritual, Human, and Psychological Dimensions of St. Paul’s Martyrdom

      • H.W.M. TÁjrÁ

      Pages 115-124

5. Messianism: Theological and Psychological Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Introduction to Messianism

      • Gerrit Glas

      Pages 127-131

   3. Casting a Psychological Look on Jesus the Marginal Jew

      • Antoine Vergote

      Pages 133-151

   4. The Land of Israel

      • Aviezer Ravitzky

      Pages 153-168

   5. The Person of Jesus

      • Abraham Van De Beek

      Pages 169-181

The chapters in this book are based on papers that were presented at the international conference Psychological Aspects of Biblical Concepts and Persons, 4–6 March 2002 in Amsterdam. The conference was organized by the Dutch Foundation for Psychiatry and Re- gion (in Dutch: Stichting Psychiatrie en Religie) a small, but active and lively organization, which organizes conferences and post-graduate education for mental health professionals and which offers a platform for interdisciplinary research and discussion in the field of mental health and religion. The organizers of the conference – Gerrit Glas, Herman M. van Praag, and Peter J. Verhagen – are m- bers of the board of the Foundation. All three are psychiatrists; two of them are also professionally occupied in another discipline: theology (Verhagen) and philosophy (Glas). The primary aim of the conference was to create a space for scientific dialogue between two disciplines with a troubled and complex relationship: psychiatry and theology. The exchange of opinions and viewpoints between specifically these two fields has dried up in the course of the past century and has virtually been absent from around 1960 till at least the early nineties of the previous century. I need to clarify that we were quite specific in isolating theology and psychiatry; instead of focusing on theology and psychology, or biblical studies and psychology, or theology and psychoanalysis. Psychology and psychoanalysis do not seem to have lost all contact with theology, at least not to such an extent as have psychiatry and theology.

• Jesus Christus
• Religion
• bible
• martyrdom
• messianism
• prophecy
• psychiatry
• psychology
• theology

From the reviews:

"For those who attempt to integrate spirituality, religion, and religious thought into psychological, particularly psychotherapeutic, models, this multiedited book will be intriguing. … The book on the whole is thought provoking and brings a somewhat different focus to the field of religion and psychology than is usually found. … The serious scholar of psychology and religion may well wish to add it to his or her collection. Courses in theological seminaries, schools of religion, and programs of psychology would benefit … ." (Richard H. Cox, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 53 (6), 2008)

"The chapters in this book are based on papers presented in 2002 at an international conference, Psychological Aspects of Biblical Concepts and Persons, in Amsterdam. … attempts to address the overwhelming ‘numinous’ experience of man’s encounter with the divine, whether in the Bible or in pathological hallucination. … the book is aimed at clinicians, scholars and students of human behavior, the editors also hope to interest pastors and theologians." (Brian R. Skea, Journal of Religion and Health, Vol. 47, 2008)

• University of Leiden, The Netherlands

  Gerrit Glas

• School of Social Work, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

  Moshe Halevi Spero

• Weinstock Oncology Day Hospital, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel

  Moshe Halevi Spero

• Meerkanten GGZ Flevo-Veluwe, Ermelo, The Netherlands

  Peter J. Verhagen

• University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

  Herman M. Praag

• The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, U.S.A

  Herman M. Praag

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