HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies (Oct 2004)

Soul and psyche: The Bible in psychological perspective

  • Willem J. Smith

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v60i1/2.507
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 60, no. 1/2
pp. 431 – 440

Abstract

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During the last third of the twentieth century a discipline that applies psychological and psychoanalytic insight to the study of the Bible, has resurfaced within biblical studies. In his book, Soul and Psyche, Wayne Rollins offers a psychological biblical approach as one of the new approaches to Scripture since the 1960’s. This approach tends to bring a renewed appreciation for the role of the human psyche or soul in the history of the Bible and its interpretation.