Michael J. Anthony reports, “In the twenty-first century, there is an increasingawareness that theology and psychology can complement one other, so agrowing number of pastors and professionals are welcoming a synergisticrelationship between these two fields of study. . . . Psychology . . . is ascientific approach to understanding what makes people feel, think, andbehave in certain ways.”8
... is integrative in two dimensions: theologically and theoretically. By theologicalintegration, we mean that Christian psychotherapy must begin with a Christian view ofpersons. Christianity is the starting point—the fundamental worldview on which a Christian psychotherapy is based. Psychology provides a great deal of help once anadequate Christian foundation is established. By theoretical integration, we refer to thegeneral trend in the psychotherapy literature to find value in various theoreticalapproaches.