Why Do Christians Shoot Their Wounded? Helping (Not Hurting) Those with Emotional Difficulties

Name: Why Do Christians Shoot Their Wounded? Helping (Not Hurting) Those with Emotional Difficulties
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ISBN: 9780830816668

ISBN-10: 0830816666

ISBN-13: 9780830816668

Edition: 1994

Authors: Dwight L. Carlson

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It's no sin to hurt.Thousands of Christians suffer real emotional pain--such as depression, anxiety, obsessiveness. Many other Christians, including prominent leaders, believe emotional problems are the result of sin or bad choices. These attitudes often only add to the suffering of those who hurt.In this book Dwight Carlson marshals recent scientific evidence that demonstrates many emotional problems are just as physical or biological as diabetes, cancer and heart disease. While he never discounts personal responsibility, Carlson shows from both the Bible and up-to-date medicine why it really is no sin to hurt. Understandably and compellingly, Why Do Christians Shoot Their Wounded? brings…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 4/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 174
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Dwight L. Carlson, a physician and psychiatrist, lives and works in California. His many books include Living God's Will and Run and Not Be Weary.



Preface



How and Why We Shoot the Wounded



Don't Shoot! I'm Already Wounded!



Why We Wound



Can a Spirit-Filled Christian Have Emotional Problems?



What Causes Emotional Illness?



It's Not Necessarily ""All In Your Mind""



It's Not Necessarily ""All In Your Mind,"" Continued



How Childhood Experiences and Stress Cause Emotional Illness



What About Personal Choice?



Pulling It All Together



How Shall the Wounded Be Mended?



The Church: Business, School or Hospital?



How the Strong