Jesus And The Way To Personal Transformation: What Do The Gospels Reveal About Jesus‪?‬

The lordship of Christ over all of a Christian’s life is an assumption basic to Christianity. The acknowledgment of his lordship in psychology is especially problematic today because of the pervasive naturalism and neo-positivism of modern psychology. Nevertheless, an understanding of the kingdom concept in Scripture suggests that Christians are inevitably called to work towards the expression of Christ’s lordship in psychology. This occurs as the Christian pursues psychological knowledge and practice before God, aware that all true truth about human nature is an expression of God’s mind, that sin, and finitude limit one’s ability to grasp the truth, that the Scriptures are needed to properly interpret human nature, and that kingdom activity involves a faithful response to Christ’s lordship in one’s work with others and one’s knowledge of human nature.

By being based on wisdom traditions as old as the world, the psychology of Jesus Christ, under license for us to use of such expression, exceed limits that modern psychology can not and will never be able to exceed, and offers solutions to existential problems that the modern psychology can not and will never be able to offer.

Because we are not able to defeat by our own strength the sinful tendencies and the behavior defects that imprison and enslave our soul, the psychology of Jesus Christ offers us not only the hope, as also the certainty that we can conquer the freedom that our soul longs since a long time.