Part 1: The Nature of the Endeavour
Part 2: Insights from Psychology
Part 3: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit
Joanna Collicutt is a chartered psychologist and Anglican priest who is Karl Jaspers Lecturer in psychology of religion and spirituality at Ripon College Cuddesdon and Oxford Diocesan Advisor for the Spiritual Care of Older People. She also ministers in a west Oxfordshire parish.
This is a timely book. The challenge of how radical Christian
disciples are made and formed is one of the most crucial ones
facing the church today. Joanna Collicutt is an excellent guide to
the ways in which psychology can inform the process of the
development of Christian character. This book promises to make a
significant contribution in this vital area.
*Graham Tomlin*
At long last, we have a stellar book about the spiritual, personal
and theological formation of individuals. Joanna Collicutt is
uniquely well-placed to write this prescient and pastoral volume,
coming to the subject as she does with all her wisdom as a pastor,
priest and psychologist of religion. The result is an outstanding
meditation which combines sagacity, insight and practical thinking
with spirituality and ministry. In a church increasingly dominated
by functionalist approaches to ministerial education and training,
Collicutt’s book offers a brilliant and fresh way of thinking about
our spiritual formation, which helps us to understand and
appreciate those values and virtues that shape and form our
character as Christians. This is one of the very best books to be
written on formation and character – and it deserves to be widely
read and studied.
*Martyn Percy*
In this book Joanna Collicutt has done us all a great service. She
builds a bridge between the worlds of faith and psychology with
compassion, elegance and wisdom. Somehow she manages to summarise
the incredible complexity of her subject matter in deceptively
simple writing- and make it look so easy. Read carefully this book
will deepen our spirits and sharpen our minds. A delight to
read.
*Dr Roger Bretherton*
In this wise and challenging resource on how faith might form our
character Joanna Collicutt has produced a model of how
interdisciplinary dialogue works in and between psychology and
theology. It is meticulously written as it draws on deep reservoirs
of research, learning, teaching and reflection on human experience
and our shared struggles of living.
Its strengths lie is its careful and intelligent use of the Bible;
an accessible description and application of key psychological
concepts and a rigorous integration of this knowledge as it is put
to use to assist us in our formation and spiritual growth in our
life in Christ.
This masterful book establishes the authority of Joanna Collicutt
as a distinctive, creative and wise practical and pastoral
theologian. Read and reflect on these 15 chapters and prepare for a
journey of learning and transformation!
*James Woodward*
This is a most welcome book for those who want to grow in
Christlike character and help others to do so. In an in-depth
conversation between psychology and Christian theology, Collicutt
draws deeply from Scripture and Christian writings, as well as from
the findings of empirical psychological research. The book offers
fascinating and helpful insights from the interaction between
psychology and faith without compromising the radical nature of
Christian formation. This is an uplifting and absorbing read and an
essential companion for those responsible for the formation of
others in churches and theological training institutions.
*Eeva John*
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