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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 Unpublished diploma paper.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
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