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Church Traditions for a Christian Psychology

Table 1

The Mystery of Persons: Human Nature, Meaning, Formation, and Uniqueness

MYSTERY NATURE MEANING FORMATION MYSTERY

(STRUCTURE) (MOTIVATION) (DEVELOPMENT) (UNIQUENESS)
Trinity “Imago Dei”
Theological Personal Personal Personal Personal
History Substance Project History Character

PERSON PERSON PERSONAL PERSONHOOD PERSON
Personal SUBSTANCE VITAL
Body-Soul Unity
(Incarnate) Embodied Passive INTEGRATION PERSONALITY
(somato-vegetative “acts of man” Ontological
dynamisms) “happening” Personhood
Sensation/ Aggression Physical Temperament
Movement Sex Pleasure-Pain
Exterior Object
Sensing Beauty
Rational Rational- Psychological
Emotional Personhood Intelligence/
(psycho-emotive Cognitive/Emotional Emotion
dynamisms) Unconscious Cons- Identity Thinking-Feeling
Intellect/Appetite cious
Consciousness Knowing Moral
Conscience Truth
(Truth)
Free ACT Active TRANSCENDENCE CHARACTER
Volitional-Moral “human acts” Ethical
(self- “acting” Personhood
determination) Self-Possession Volitional Vices/Virtues
Will (Freedom) Self-Donation Active-Passive
Interior Subject Loving Goodness
COMMUNION RELATION RELATIONAL PARTICIPATION COMMUNION
Relational Affiliation Social Interpersonal
VOCATIONAL (Nature-Nurture) Self-Other
Achievement Intimacy
SUFFERING Spiritual
FLOURISHING (Nature-Grace)
Adventure Purgation
Illumination
Serving Unity Union

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