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„I once read Simone Weil, who commented the
verse from Matthew 18:20: „For where two or
three are gathered together in my name, the-
re am I in the midst of them“. She said „the Warsaw 2012
Kingdom of God is not where crowds gather
thogether but in personal relations present in The 11th Symposium of EMCAPP
a small group of friends.“ So it is the trustful 3.-6. September 2012
personal relations which make the Kingdom
odf God. And this is what I aprecciate the most
about the EMCAPP Meetings - the fact, which SPECIFIC TOPICS OF CHRISTIAN ANTHROPOLOGY,
always amazes me, that people of so different PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
professional experience, different countries and
denominations can come together and actually EMCAPP brings together international leaders and pio-
MEET. That despite differences of opinion on neers in the field of Christian psychology and psychothe-
certain issues - it does not turn out to be ano- rapy and its underlying anthropology.
ther Tower of Babel but rather we manage to 26 participants from 9 nations in Warsaw - very good or-
find a common language and discover Unity ganized by Anna Ostaszewska - Russian Orthodox, Ro-
in Diversity. This seems unique. And no mat-
ter how different we are, we can still share and man Catholic, Reformed Protestant and Pentecostal tra-
learn from one another how to be better Chris- ditions were all
tians, psychologists and humans.“ Represented - inspiring and fruitful group works - depth
Anna Rudecka, Poland discussions in the evening

Main lectures:
Krzysztof Wojcieszek (Poland):
What is love – the most important human need
Andrey Lorgus (Russia): The person in Orthodox view
Charles Zeiders (USA):
Christian Holism as a Spirituality of Psychotherapy
Short presentations:
“As always it was very interesting to get Psychology of Religion Limitations
together with EMCAPP symposium. by Romuald Jaworski (Poland)
Especially I enjoyed the workshops: If emotions are purely physical, why and how does the
they give more room for deeper discus- God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob have them? by Tre-
sion. EMCAPP is also truly ecumeni- vor Griffith (Great Britain)
cal: many different Christian Faiths are Echotherapy by Francesco Cutino (Italy)
working together. I find it important Scientific Researches on Christian Psychotherapy
that outside the official program there
is also room for inspiriting discussion.” by Anna Ostaszewska (Poland)
Toni Terho, Finland Personality traits as moderator of interactions between in-
terpersonal relations and relations with God
Olena Yaremko, Ukraine

„Warsaw 2012 was an important event for me. Firstly, I saw the richness of sci-
entific researches, developed concepts and theories on the integration of psy-
chology and theology, which exist in the Christian West European scientific
community; secondly, I was inspired by the solidarity of psychologists, thera-
pists, doctors and theologians in the discussion of the anthropological aspect.
Personally for me the concept of integration based on anthropology became
clearer. Here, in Ukraine, we only dream of a similar format (pattern) of scien-
tific debates and the dialogue between church and science.”
Slava Khalanskyy, Ukraine

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