This Doctor of Ministry Project was designed to condition men in spiritual warfare and prepare them for battle ready leadership. The project also sought to incorporate the valid topic of spiritual ...warfare into a local church's leadership curriculum. The project was administered over a period of six weeks in one local Bible church among a group of thirty men, ages eighteen through sixty, of different backgrounds and levels of spiritual growth. The plan for this project was to set forth one overarching goal with four objectives. The goal was to build knowledge of the basic biblical principles of spiritual warfare in order to raise awareness of the spiritual battle, dispel ignorance, and prepare men to submit biblically designed personal battle strategies. The project report begins with an overview of the four spiritual warfare models, identifying the classical model as the one most aligned with this project. Following the overview, the report presents some cultural and philosophical encumbrances to spiritual warfare as well as the importance of thinking Christianly and of trusting in the sufficiency of Scripture to secure a strong theological foundation for spiritual conflict. After this foundational information, the actual project consists of two sections. The first section relates the implementation of steps in the pedagogical process: lecturing, questioning, reading, journaling, and partnering. The second part of the project introduces the main measuring instrument used in evaluation: Journaling on the Run. These daily journaling exercises were designed to expand the understanding of each student and probe the heart. The journaling booklets provided the majority of affective data to determine goal accomplishment. The key conclusion of this project is that when the men were given the basic principles of spiritual warfare as delineated from Scripture, they were more able to identify temptations and Satanic lies. The men were also more confident to identify the specific Scriptures to use in resistance of the devil. The project results reveal that twenty-seven men submitted their own uniquely designed personal battle strategies against the world, the flesh, and Satan, thus satisfactorily fulfilling this project's overarching goal. Consequently, after collecting and synthesizing the raw data against the goal and objectives of this project, it became evident that this study did raise awareness, dispel ignorance, and begin to prepare men for battle ready leadership.
Letters to the Editor
National Catholic Reporter,
01/2024, Letnik:
60, Številka:
7
Trade Publication Article
Do they want to be part of the solution or are they part of the problem? MICHAEL PETRELLI ndianapolis, Indiana -04 Proceed with caution We in the West place a high value on dualistic thinking (NCR, ...Dec. 22, 2023 - Jan. 4.,2024). NANCY MCGUNAGLE Kalispell, Montana -06 Climate change "Francis also pushed back against attempts to cast climate change as the fault of the poor and developing countries, referencing a recent Ox-fam report that found the richest 10% of the world population is responsible for half of global emissions compared to the poorest 50% contributing 8% of emissions," and that is why there will be no real progress on climate change until the global majority frees itself from U.S. -led Western minority rule (NCR, Dec. 22,2023 - Jan. Catholics in the West stand firmly on the side of Western dominance.
C. G. Jung's imaginations in The Red Book, the prima materia of his extraordinary creativity, are strongly rooted in cultural traditions, such as Hellenism, Ancient Egypt, the Far East, and others; ...and, at the same time, they point far ahead in time to future generations. The Red Book is like a flourishing tree: its roots reach far down into the history of the earth, whereas its blossoms already contain the fruits of a time to come. Toward the end of The Red Book, the Son of the Earth resembles more and more Philemon, becoming, as him, a lover of the Soul. At the end of his life, Jung entirely turned into the age-old son of the mother; he, too, became a true lover of the soul!
An obituary for Florence Grossenbacher, who died in 2009, is presented. Tobriner, Grossenbacher's co-director at the Counseling Center at Mills College in the 1970's and early '80's, recalls how the ...two of them defied the college administration's attempts to interfere with their mission to help troubled students.
Este artigo se propõe a refletir sobre as origens do conceito junguiano de mandala. Utiliza-se o relato autobiográfico de Jung, Memórias, Sonhos e Reflexões, e sua obra Psicologia e Alquimia para ...traçar essa origem. Segundo Barbara Hannah, biógrafa de Jung, uma mesquita no Cairo (Egito) foi de importância capital para a formulação desse conceito. Provavelmente esse templo é a Mesquita Ahmad Ibn Tulun. É analisada a relação entre a simbologia arquitetônica islâmica inspirada pelo sufismo e as concepções psicológicas de Jung.
In this paper, I assert that the rise of psychological experience in Western culture-in the form of the "psychological attitude"-is a developmental, if not evolutionary, advance that is a direct ...response to the objective crises of our times. I note the way in which such experience has been problematically marginalized, if not neutralized, by the association of "development" with individual experience, which has reduced our understanding of the new psychological attitude to its modest success in its application to our private lives. By way of overcoming this historical limitation, I review the research of several Jungians and related theorists to describe the way that social science language is beginning to catch up with the full cultural and political significance of our emerging psychological experience. Central to this thesis is an integration of the emerging field of "affect science," including the history of the cultural use of affect, with clinical and political psychologies. The diverse theories from these fields are helping us to understand the epistemological significance of the "objective" nature of human development; that is, the way the developing human can influence, if not create, his or her political culture. The thinking of C. G. Jung, Erik Erikson, and Joseph Henderson establishes an intuitive frame for this new thinking, which is currently being filled out by the further thought and applied research of Andrew Samuels, John Beebe, Samuel Kimbles, Thomas Singer, and Aftab Omer. Their work, in turn, is leading to practical applications in a range of affect-focused "learning practices" that activate emergent "leadership capacities" that are nascent within the psychological attitude. I identify this emerging "praxis" as a new field of a transformative political psychology with a new type of practitioner, a transformative political psychologist who, through a "political practice," is able to engage progressive organizations in order to activate the "political development" of the leadership of those organizations.
Life will always be a mystery, society will always be "evil, sorrowful and inequitable" (Campbell, Myths 104), and the energy of the universe will always flow through our hearts, minds and bodies ...while we are alive. Of these things, I am certain. Consequently, for us to live peacefully on earth, each of us must be born anew by taking the hero's journey, and as Joseph Campbell has shown, this has been the case throughout time as evidenced metaphorically and symbolically by all myths, religions and folk tales. We must depart, wander through the wilderness of our unconscious, and return to society self-aware and strong in spirit. Of this I am equally certain, whether we call the process maturation, salvation, or quest. In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell discovers "astonishingly little variation in the morphology of the adventure" (36), explicating just how fundamentally similar life is for all of us, regardless of gender, race, creed, or station. I have modernized and secularized the hero's journey by showing how little difference there is between Gilgamesh's journey, considered the quintessence of all hero's journeys, and my journey, despite almost five thousand years between our lives and our different ranks; a king and a common man. As Campbell states, everyone should make the quest, for no one need be selected by a Supreme Being or anyone else, and each will benefit both society and themselves by doing so. Taking the journey today, more than sixty years since Campbell's book was published, is more challenging because of the tremendous influence of science and technology, which has given a false sense of security regarding the nature of humanity. The many essential dualities of life, such as good and evil or love and hate, endure; thus, humans have the free will to create peace, destruction, or some combination of the two. The choice rests entirely on whether humans sufficiently hold innate selfishness in check in the service of humanity, thereby preserving the planet for future generations.
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