Christian Psychology
31
phy and Religious Studies at Old Dominion University
and Saint Leo University. His research reflects his inter-
disciplinary interests in Christian thought, psychology
and philosophy. Correspondence concerning this article
should be addressed to William Hathaway, School of
Psychology & Counseling (CRB 174), 1000 Regent
University Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23464. Email:
.
References
Bernstein, R.J. (1983).
Beyond objectivism and relativ-
ism: Science, hermeneutics, & praxis.
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press.
Campbell, D.T. (1974) Evolutionary epistemology. In
P. A. Schilpp (Ed.),
The philosophy of Karl R. Popper
(pp. 412-463). LaSalle, IL: Open Court.
Campbell, D.T. (1974b). Unjustified Variation and
Selective Retention in Scientific Discovery, In F
J. Ayala and T. Dobzhansky (Eds.),
Studies in
the philosophy of biology
(pp. 139-161). London:
Macmillan.
Darwin, C. (1873).
The origin of the species.
6th ed.
London: John Murray.
Dewey, J. (1884). The new psychology.
Andover Review,
2
, 278-289.
Gillespie, R. (1991)
Manufacturing knowledge: a history
of the Hawthorne experiments.
Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press.
Groothuis, D. (2000).
Truth decay: Defending Christian-
ity against the challenges of postmodernism.
Downers
Grove, Il: Inter Varsity Press.
Guthrie, R.V. (2003).
Even the rats were white: A histori-
cal view of psychology.
2nd ed. Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Pearson.
Hathaway, W. (2002). Integration as interpretation: A
hermeneutical realist view.
Journal of Psychology and
Christianity, 21
(5), 205-218.
Kramer, H.J. (2003). The concept of hermeneutical
experience: Alternatives to Gadamer.
Graduate
Faculty Philosophy Journal, 24
, 5-18.
Kirkpatrick, E.A. (1895).
Inductive psychology: An
introductory study of mental phenomena
. New York:
E.L. Kellog.
Kuenning, M. (1997). Gadamer’s hermeneutic exter-
nalism.
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 35,
179-201.
Leplin, J. (1997).
A novel defense of scientific realism.
New York: Oxford University.
Margolis, J. (1984-1985). Objectivism and relativism.
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 85
, 171-191.
Matusitz, J., & Kramer, E. (2011). A critique of Ber-
nstein’s
beyond objectivism and relativism: science,
hermeneutics & praxis. Poises & Praxis, 7
, 291-303.
Nash, R.H. (1982).
The Word of God and the mind of
man.
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.
Norris, C. (1997)
Against relativism: Philosophy of sci-
ence, descontruction, & critical theory.
New York:
Wiley-Blackwell.
Plantinga, Alvin (1993).
Warrant and Proper Function.
New York: Oxford University.
Plantinga, Alvin (2000).
Warranted Christian Belief.
New York: Oxford University.
Plantinga, A., & Tooley, M. (2008).
Knowledge of God
.
New York: Blackwell.
Plantinga, A. (2013).
On Christian scholarship.
Unpublished manuscript retrieved Oct. 7, 2013
from
/
virtual_library/articles/plantinga_alvin/on_chris-
tian_scholarship.pdf
Reber, J.S., & Slife, B.D. (this issue). Theistic psychol-
ogy and the relation of worldviews: A reply to
critics.
Reichenbach, H. (1938).
Experience and prediction: an
analysis of the foundations and the structure of knowl-
edge.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press.
Robinson, D. N. (1995).
An intellectual history of
psychology
, 3rd ed. Madison, WI: University of
Wisconsin Press.
Rosenthal, R.; Jacobson, L. (1968).
Pygmalion in the
classroom.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
Slife, B.D., Reber, J.S. (2009). Is There A Pervasive Im-
plicit Bias Against Theism In Psychology?
Journal
of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. 29
(2),
63-79.
Slife, B. D., Reber, J. S., & Faulconer, J. E. (2012).
Implicit ontological reasoning: Problems of dual-
ism in psychological science. In R. Proctor & J.
Capaldi (Eds.),
Psychology of science: Implicit and
explicit reasoning.
Pp. 459-478. New York: Oxford
University.
Slife, B. D., Reber, J. S., & Lefevor, G. T. (2012).
When God truly matters: A theistic approach to
psychology.
Research in the Social Scientific Study of
Religion, 23
, 213-237.
Wachterhauser, B. (Ed.)(1994).
Hermeneutics and truth.
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University.
Wachterhauser, B. (2003). Getting it right: Relativism,
realism and truth. In R.J Dostal (Ed.),
The Cam-
bridge companion to Gadamer
(pp. 52-78). New
York: Cambridge University Press.
Christian Psychology in Dialogue with Theistic
Psychology
Eric L. Johnson
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
I have been very excited about Reber and Slife’s work on
theistic psychology (TP) ever since I first encountered
it about five years ago. I am persuaded that, from a
Christian psychology standpoint, TP offers a conceptual
breakthrough of enormous significance to Christians
in the fields of psychology and psychotherapy. How
could I not be supportive? Christian psychology, after
