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This chapter brings into conversation the theologians presented in Chap. 2, the psychologists presented in Chaps. 3 and 4, and the research participants presented in Chap. 5. It examines points of congruence, difference, and incongruence among and between theories and beliefs concerning how psychosis and mystical religious experiences are understood. The roles of personal experience and culture in both psychology and theology are discussed. Particular attention is focused on the importance of vertical experience to human beings, especially in light of the argument that human nature is three-dimensional (body, psyche, spirit) rather than two-dimensional (body, psyche). Points of congruence are then used in Chap. 7 to develop a new paradigm for distinguishing psychosis and mystical religious experience.
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DeHoff, S.L. (2018). Theology and Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Discussion. In: Psychosis or Mystical Religious Experience?. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68261-7_6
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