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Marie T. Hoffman, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist, cer�fied
psychoanalyst, and Associate Professor of Psychology (Ad-
junct) at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Lowell W. Hoffman,
Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist, cer�fied psychoanalyst,
and founder/co-director (1988- present) of Brookhaven
Center for Counseling and Development in Allentown, PA.

Together they founded the Brookhaven Ins�tute where
they teach and supervise mental health professionals and
interns in the integra�on of Chris�an faith and psychody-
Lowell W. & Marie T. namic perspec�ves.
Hoffman Marie's publica�ons include the influen�al Toward Mutu-
al Recogni�on: Rela�onal Psychoanalysis and the Chris�-
(USA)
an Narra�ve published by Routledge in 2010, and When
the Roll is Called: Trauma and the Soul of American Evan-
gelicalism published by Wipf and Stock in 2016. Marie
and Lowell were also founding co-directors in 2009 of the
psychoanaly�c track in the Chris�an Associa�on for Psy-
chological Studies (CAPS), and founding co-directors in
2012 of an integra�ve psychoanaly�c training program
that graduated three cohorts of psychoanalysts. They re-
side both in Allentown, PA and Gryon, Switzerland.

Former contribu�ons:
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h�ps://emcapp.ignis.de/12/#/4#p=108

Faith: Through, In, and To an “Other”

“…for I know Whom I have believed, and I am sure that He is
able to guard un�l that day what has been entrusted to me.”
2 Timothy 1:12 (RSV)

Introduc�on
“Hath God [truly] said?” queried the serpent to their Maker as untrustworthy, decei�ul and
the credulous Eve. With this ques�on the ene- withholding.
my of our souls ini�ated the dismantling of The serpent’s a�ack on the rela�onship bet-
Adam and Eve’s rela�onship with God. He first ween Adam, Eve and God, strikes at the heart
purposefully misrepresented God’s words, and of what is necessary for the development of
proposed that God was envious, wan�ng only faith. Philip Melancthon, 16 century Protes-
th
to prevent them from achieving the godlike tant reformer, empha�cally asserted that faith
characteris�cs of which they were capable. Un- was rela�onal. Faith consisted of and sprang
like the later St. Paul, who asserted that he forth from a deep trust in the person of God
knew Who he had believed in, Satan convinced whose reliability and benevolence assures se-
Adam and Eve that they did not really know curity and well-being. He writes, “faith is
God at all. Satan cra�ily destroyed the “God- nothing else than trust in God’s mercy… a
image” of Adam and Eve, causing them to see certain and constant trust in God’s goodwill to-