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Christian Anthropology


             The rhythm of healthy abilities and overflowing into extremes – some examples


             Extreme                                  Healthy ability              Extreme



             arrogance                             self-esteem humility            submissiveness

             activism, over-zealousness                  act let it be             passivity, paralysis


             pedantry                              carefulness generosity          slovenliness

             meanness, addiction                     pleasure doing without        denying needs


             over-responsibility         accepting responsibility giving up responsibility  avoiding taking responsibility

             credulity                             faith, trust test/discern       distrust

                                                                                   spinelessness, unresisting
             inconsiderateness                getting one’s way yielding
                                                                                   compliance
                                           saying what one finds  contenting oneself with
             grumbling, quarrelling                                                “swallowing” everything
                                                unsatisfactory something
             domineering, authoritarian      being an authority accepting authority  servility, hanger-on
             bearing
                                            respect and manage  share and give away
             meanness                                                              neglect property, squander
                                                     property property

             blabber                                   speak remain silent         fall silent

             self-condemnation                       remorse assurance of salvation  self-righteousness


             attach oneself to people         live relationships able to be alone  isolate oneself

             despair                                  sadness joy                  euphoria

                                        get involved and commit
             lose oneself in someone                         differentiate oneself  refusal
                                                      oneself
             pacify                      comfort and encourage correct             judge and condemn


             anxious control                          caution carefree             recklessness
                                                             have objections and
             “worship”                          to value, agree                    disparage, hold in contempt
                                                             reservations

             “With died-in-the-wool faulty attitudes, it is, as a rule,   Befreiende Wahrheit, Nr. 9. Zeitschrift für Seelsorge und
             necessary to go back in the memory to where the faulty   Christliche Therapie, pp. 60-67. Kitzingen: IGNIS
             attitude began, to recollect the situation at that time and   Baar, Hanne (1998): Wie man wahnsinnig werden kann.
             to take back decisions which were made then. … There   2nd ed., Rottendorf: Hymnus-Verlag
             are no healings in the fast lane even with this list. Grace   Guardini, Romano (1925/1998): Der Gegensatz. 4th ed.,
             and liberation must be related to that which requires the   Mainz, Paderborn: Grünewald/Schöningh
             grace and liberation, and this very specifically. The list   Lang, Ulrike (2001): Wann geht helfende Beziehung zu
             can be of help here.” (Baar, 1994, p.78)          weit? Unpublished diploma paper. Kitzingen:  IGNIS-
                                                               Akademie
             References                                        Schulz von Thun, Friedemann (1989): Miteinander reden
             Baar, Hanne (1994): “Das Gute kennen”. In: Befreiende   2. Stile, Werte und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung. Reinbek
             Wahrheit, Nr. 2. Zeitschrift für Seelsorge und Christliche   bei Hamburg: Rowohlt
             Therapie, pp. 74-78. Kitzingen: IGNIS             Helwig, Paul (1951/1968): Charakterologie. Freiburg/B.:
             Baar, Hanne (1996): “Wieso tut Ablehnung so weh?”. In:   Herder.

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