Christian Vs. Non Christian Clients - 2547 Words

Abstract A worldview in isolation is a worldview without a purpose. This paper allows the author to flesh out her worldview, then apply it to faith in counseling. Reality is centered on God, and is ultimately understood through him. Worldviews that do not allow for the a-natural to be involved in an understanding of psychotherapy may seem antithetical to the Christian faith. However, worldviews such as modernity are appropriate mechanisms for science, and science itself is not a threat to Christianity. Even though its applications and interpretations can seem to rise up at times against Christian belief, this is a question of hermeneutics, not a question of the fundamental rightness or wrongness of science. God created humanity to seek for†¦show more content†¦This will become evident in the following explanation, founded explicitly on Scripture. However, understanding and applying the Christian faith to everyday life and counseling practice is more nuanced than a typical explanation might allow for. Valuable elements from other worldviews positively augment the Christian framework. This enhanced understanding of the world will become more evident with greater explanation, but some key reminders are listed briefly here. With modern thought did come backlash against the church, but also, among other things, an increasingly correct understanding of the cosmos, due in part to the scientific method, which still proves to be useful and important today. The characteristic skepticism of postmodernism may be a symptom of readiness for the next philosophical step, and may portend an explosion of new thought (White, 2006). In fact, some philosophers consider the current cultural milieu to be something other than either modernism or postmodernism, calling it the hypermodern age, digimodernism, altermodernism, or the metamodern (to name a few), characterized by pragmatic idealism (Vermeulen van den Akker, 2010). It is not that this new philosophical thought should automatically be adopted, but such developments should spur Christian thinkers toward engaging with the current understanding of the world instead of falling back on typical arguments against modernity and postmodernity. Metaphysical