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Theophostic Counseling is a new jacket?

Theophostic Counseling is a new jacket? (자료출처 http://www.apologeticsindex.org/c55.html)
 
칼 융의 분석심리학과 신성한 내면아이 개념을 이해하지 못하면
반기독교적이며 뉴에이지적인 심리학과 내적치유 방향성들을 알 수가 없습니다.
"내적치유와 내면아이", "내적치유와 구상화"를 꼭 읽어 보시기 바랍니다.
구상화를 분명하고 바르게 알기 이하여 저의 책을 참고하시기 바랍니다.

Theophostic counseling (which at first used to be written as "TheoPhostic Counseling") is, essentially, Agnes Sanford's inner healing in a new jacket. Theos = Greek for God. Phostic = Greek for light. Theophostic counseling is said to bring God's light into a given situation. Whereas traditional counseling is said to teach coping techniques to deal with painful experiences (now or in the past), the heart of Theophostic Counseling is that Jesus is invited to address the lies and false beliefs resulting from painful experiences.
Theophostic counseling is a theory pioneered by Dr. Ed Smith, a Christian therapist from Campbellsville, Kentucky, who ...

...saw the importance of not just addressing the memory, or its emotion, but the long-term lies that the memory held in place.
Source: Healing of the Memories, by John Edmiston

On its previous web site, Cornerstone Christian Counselling Centre (Canada), described Theophostic counseling as follows:

TheoPhostic counselling is a very Biblical, user friendly, effective method which taps into a counsellee's incorrect interpretations about experiences, brings God's Spirit into the beliefs the person has assigned to the event and reinterprets the memory according to the truths from God's Word.
Source: Cornerstone Christian Counselling Centre [Article no longer online], Canada (New URL for this organization)

Perhaps significantly (in terms of the effectiveness claims made for Theophostic Counseling), the same organization currently states that it uses a "blended approach," including Theophostic Counseling:

We use a method we call Prayer Counselling. Prayer Counselling is a blended approach which we gleaned from the foundational teaching of John and Paula Sandford (Elijah House) and numerous others: Kylstra's, Olson's, Payne's, Smith's (Theophostic), Anderson's, Kraft's, McNutt's and Ellel Ministries.
Source: Cornerstone Christian Counselling Centre

In correspondence with Dr. Smith - as well as in his workshop materials - he has denied that Theophostic Counseling is akin to inner healing. However, close examination shows both approaches to be very similar.
Though is it adamantly denied, Theophostic Counseling includes a form of guided imagery and visualization, the possible acceptance of recovered memories, and Dr. Smith's belief that Christians can be inhabited with demons.
Interestingly, the Theophostic Ministries website claims that its training program has been found ''to be highly effective with,'' among other things, so-called ''Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA).'' SRA is a highly controversial subject kept alive with fantasies, hoaxes and conspiracy theories. Thus Theophostic Counseling opens up the prospect of False Memory Syndrome.

Dr. Paul Simpson, of Tucson, Ariz., an accredited Christian family counselor, and author of "Second Thoughts: Understanding the False Memory Crisis and How It Could Affect You" (1996), calls Theophostic "pretty dangerous stuff."
"While recovered memory therapy has been completely debunked in the professional community, you've got this springing up from Ed Smith. And that's what it is: a dressed up version of recovered memory therapy," said Simpson.
Source: Controversial international ministry operates from Campbellsville, Central Kentucky News Journal, July 2, 2003
 
• Articles
 
 A Biblical Evaluation of Theophostic Ministry, by the Staff of Community Evangelical Free Church, Elverson, Pennsylvania. • PDF version
Theophostic ministry has been the subject of much study, discussion and prayer by the CEFC Elder Board for nearly a year. As a result, we have concluded that we can neither actively nor passively endorse this approach to Christian ministry.
 A Few Words About Theophostic Counseling: Pastor to Pastor [No longer online] (Contra) By Rev. Fr. Kevin L. Baker. Note his remarks about the progression:
Our counseling ministry progressed from the standard Christian counseling materials such as Rapha's The Search for Significance and Minerth-Meir materials, to adding Neil Anderson's truth and deliverance approach, to the Elijah House prophetic prayer counseling (including having a ''prophet'' in to give people ''words'' at a cost of $300/night), to step groups, and finally degenerating into Theophostic Counseling.
 Deliverance Debate (Neutral) "Unconventional 'Theophostic' counseling cites results in rebutting its critics." Christianity Today, Feb. 5, 2001
 Healing of the Memories (PRO) Article by John Edmiston, who has had a good experience with TheoPhostic Counseling.
 Inner Healing by Anton Hein
 The Sufficiency of Scripture over Theophostic Counseling
 TheoPhostic Counseling - Divine Revelation or PsychoHeresy? (Contra). Actually a link to a book, the first chapter of which can be read online. Note: the publishers of that article, PsychoHeresy Awareness Ministries, take a strong and unbalanced, anti-psychology stand. It's viewpoint on the issue of TheoPhostic Counseling can be seen in this newsletter article
 

• Books : Online
 
 Lying Spirits "A Christian Journalist's Report On TheoPhostic Ministry" by Jan Fletcher. An in-dept, well-documented online book. • PDF version
 

• See Also
 
» False Memory Syndrome
» Inner Healing
» Psychology and the Church, by Bob and Gretchen Passantino:
Part one: Laying a Foundation for Discernment,
Part two: The "Biblical Counseling" Alternative
Part three: Can Psychotherapy Be Integrated with Christianity?
Part four: The High Cost of Biblical Compassion and Commitment
 
• Sites
 
 TheoPhostic Ministries Dr. Smith's official web site.
 
 
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First posted: Aug. 1, 1997
Last Updated: Feb. 3, 2004
Editor: Anton Hein
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