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Soul and Psyche: A Critical Assessment

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Wayne G. Rollins has been the key organizer of the Psychology and Biblical Studies program unit of the Society of Biblical Literature, where on numerous occasions I have observed the gentle kindness and buoyant enthusiasm with which he has hosted and moderated the meetings. I have also benefitted from personal and professional conversations with him. Consequently, it is an honor, and more than a little daunting, to respond to his book. Rollins has three goals for this volume: to provide a history of the discipline he calls psychological biblical criticism, to define this academic field, and to propose an agenda for this field as applied to biblical exegesis and hermeneutics. Rollins hopes for a rapprochement between the historical and psychological approaches to biblical studies.

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    Ralph L. Underwood (Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Care)

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Underwood, R.L. Soul and Psyche: A Critical Assessment. Pastoral Psychology 51, 135–149 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020006730416

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