A Biblical View of Mental Health (with Chris Adams)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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How does a Christian view of mental health compare and contrast with a secular perspective? Are we in a mental health crisis today? And how do we best love our family and friends who are suffering from mental illness. In this video and podcast, Sean and Scott talk with Rosemead Professor Chris Adams about these questions and more. Dr. Adams shares about the new Flourishing in Ministry resource that helps pastors and churches address mental health. See www.flourishinginministry.org. Rev. Chris...

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0:00.0	Are we in a mental health crisis? Is there a difference between a biblical and a
0:07.1	secular approach to mental health? And how do we best care for our loved ones
0:11.5	struggling with mental illness.
0:14.0	Our guest today, Dr. Chris Adams, is a professor at Rosemead School of Psychology,
0:18.8	Bileu University, and the head of the Mental Health and Church Initiative which we're going to get into.
0:24.2	I'm your host Sean McDow.
0:25.6	I'm your co-host Scott Ray.
0:27.2	This is ThinkBibically, brought to you from Taub School Theology Biale University.
0:31.3	Chris, good to finally have you on. Oh, thank you. This is a treat. I've
0:35.5	been looking forward to this for a while for academic and personal reasons really diving
0:40.2	into this issue. But maybe it would be helpful if we could start with what do we mean
0:44.9	by mental health? Sure. And is there a difference between a biblical view of mental health and
0:49.6	a secular view? Sure, wow. What a great question.
0:54.0	30 seconds or less.
0:55.0	Yeah, okay, got it.
0:57.0	Ready go.
0:58.0	One of the challenges of course is scripture was written in a pre-scientific era so before we thought about
1:05.6	the medical model that's evolved that we have now and so we have to do some
1:11.1	careful thinking about the cultural and social situation in which
1:17.3	scripture was written to interpret it well and think about what might be
1:21.8	applicable from our current kind of context and where does it differ.
1:25.8	I think the picture though and the old and new testament, as I understand it, is a holistic one of the human person so all the we kind of separate
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