Question

In chapter 4 of the Johnson (2010) text regarding Christian Psychology View, the authors Roberts and Watson, discuss the implications of psychology from the passage of the Sermon on the Mount. Explain their viewpoint and how they feel this touches on psychology, overall well-being, and how this segues into their belief that “Christian psychology is a different psychology” (p. 158). Lastly, what is your view on this?

Answer 1

The Sermon on the mount is a collection of teaching of Jesus, which emphasizes his moral teaching. It offers a strict guidance of most acceptble behavior. It contains 8 blessings.

According to Roberts and Watson, Christian psychology is a unique form of psychology, which seeks to develop a distinctly Christian model for understanding human behavior. Christian psychology is a set of notions which aims at the well- being of the mind, by understanding healthy and unhealthy traits, behaviors, desires and emotions. So, ultimately it helps to transition from unhealthy traits to healthy traits. Christian psychology has its own strngths; It is a psychology outline the way to human well-being, it involoves different professionals such as Bible scholars, philosophers, theologists, psychologists, counsellors etc.

In my opinion, to a certain extend only the Christian psychology is different. The only difference I felt is the involvement of faith and revealed things.Instead of this, the concepts are connected to other disciplines of psychology. For instance, the case of Sermon on the mount, it's basically about some blessings or rewards. If you follow this guidelines you will get this kind of blessing. Here, a reward can reinforce one's good behavior. Therefore, it has similarity to behavioral psychology of reinforcement and punishment.