Submissions from 2022
Development and Evaluation of the Clinician-Rated Humility Scale, Chance A. Bell, Nicolae Dumitrascu, Steven J. Sandage, Eugene L. Hall, Peter J. Jankowski, and Miriam Waldheter
Humility is a key virtue in most religious traditions, and empirical evidence links it with healthy religious leader development. Psychological evaluation often forms part of the vocational discernment process for religious leaders. We eval...
A practice-based study of cultural humility and well-being among psychotherapy clients, Elise J.Y. Choe, Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, Sarah A. Crabtree, and Laura E. Captari
One trend in psychotherapy research involves examining client factors to better understand change. Some have framed client factors as virtues. Humility is one virtue that has gained attention with evidence that suggests humility may help fa...
The Influence of Experiential Avoidance, Humility and Patience on the Association Between Religious/Spiritual Exploration and Well-Being, Peter J. Jankowski, Sam Murphy, Jaclyn Johnson, Steven J. Sandage, David C. Wang, and James Tomlinson
Prior research on the religiousness/spirituality—well-being association has largely neglected the dimension of religious/spiritual exploration, and the recent trend examining virtues, religiousness/spirituality, and well-being has predomina...
The Moderating Influence of Religiousness/Spirituality on COVID-19 Impact and Change in Psychotherapy, Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, and Sarah A. Crabtree
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred a global surge in empirical research examining the influence of the pandemic on individuals’ mental health symptoms and well-being. Within this larger literature is a rapidly growing literature on the assoc...
The Psychometric Challenges of Implementing Wellbeing Assessment Into Clinical Research and Practice: A Commentary on “Assessing Mental Wellbeing Using the Mental Health Continuum–Short Form: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling”, Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, and Sarah A. Crabtree
Iasiello et al. (2022) offered a useful meta-analytic summary of the construct validity evidence for the internal structure of the Mental Health Continuum–Short Form (MHC-SF), with the aim of encouraging the assessment of “wellbeing in clin...
Longitudinal associations for right-wing authoritarianism, social justice, and compassion among seminary students, Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, Daniel J. Hauge, Choi Hee An, and David C. Wang
Religious/spiritual communities in the United States hold significant differences in the relative valuing of social order and progress toward social justice, and religious/spiritual leaders play an influential role in fostering those values...
Virtues as Mediators of the associations between Religious/Spiritual Commitment and Well-being, Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, David C. Wang, and Sarah A. Crabtree
Religious/spiritual commitment tends to show positive associations with well-being, and yet, questions remain about the mechanisms for the association. Some have recently proposed that virtues may mediate the religious/spiritual commitment ...
Touched by Love: Spiritual Experience in Chinese Christian Conversion Narratives, Glen G. Scorgie, Kate Scorgie, Alexander Chow, and Nicholas Hsieh
Christianity has become the religion of choice for a growing number of diasporic Chinese. This qualitative study examines the conversion narratives of first-generation Chinese converts to evangelical Protestant Christianity, exploring in pa...
Religious diversity and well-being in positive psychology: implications for clinical practice, James Tomlinson, Steven J. Sandage, Peter J. Jankowski, and Laura E. Captari
Positive psychology, as a subdiscipline oriented to promoting human well-being, has grown significantly as a field over the past thirty years. To date, clinical applications in positive psychology have tended to advance more generalized, un...
Submissions from 2021
Mental health symptoms, well-being and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods practice-based study, Sarah A. Crabtree, Laura E. Captari, Eugene L. Hall, Steven J. Sandage, and Peter J. Jankowski
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated abrupt and substantial changes in daily life, and public health strategies intended to protect physical health can negatively affect mental health and well-being, especially for individuals with pre-existi...
Exploring virtue ethics in psychodynamic psychotherapy: latent changes in humility, affect regulation, symptoms and well-being, Peter J. Jankowski, Laura E. Captari, and Steven J. Sandage
A rising interest in virtues in psychotherapy has spurred empirical exploration of their influence on both mental health symptoms and well-being. As such, we explored the virtue ethics premise that growth in the virtue of humility may ameli...
Risk, Symptoms, and Well-Being: Emerging Adult Latent Profiles During Treatment, Peter J. Jankowski, Eugene Hall, Sarah A. Crabtree, Steven J. Sandage, Miriam Bronstein, and Danielle Sandage
Emerging adulthood seems to be a period of not only heightened risk for mental health symptoms, but also growth toward greater well-being. Mental health disorders are highest among adults ages 18 to 29 years, yet emerging adults are unlikel...
Religious Leaders’ Well-Being: Protective Influences for Humility and Differentiation Against Narcissism, Peter J. Jankowski, Eugene L. Hall, Steven J. Sandage, and Nicolae Dumitrascu
The virtue of humility and the construct of differentiation have shown protective influences against narcissism among religious leaders. Our cross-sectional study tested a moderated mediation model of these protective influences on a hypoth...
A Mixed-Method Intervention Study on Relational Spirituality and Humility Among Religious Leaders, Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, Elizabeth G. Ruffing, Sarah A. Crabtree, Chance A. Bell, and Seong Hyun Park
Existing humility intervention studies have yielded inconsistent findings, despite prior findings that suggest a salutary influence for general humility, including on religious leaders’ religiousness/spirituality (R/S). We tested a relation...
Relational spirituality profiles and flourishing among emerging religious leaders, Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, David C. Wang, and Peter Hill
We advanced an integrative trend examining religiousness/spirituality (R/S) and flourishing using person-centered data analyses. Specifically, we tested a relational spirituality model (RSM) proposition that a latent profile comprised balan...
Submissions from 2020
Family Ministry: Past, Present, Future, Denise Muir Kjesbo and Lou Y. Cha
Within the family ministry movement, various philosophies, curriculum, conferences, and ministry models have been historically developed for the Christian discipleship of families. These resources and models have become an integral part of ...
Four Portraits, One Jesus. A Survey of Jesus and the Gospels. Second Edition., Mark L. Strauss
An engaging introduction to Jesus and the gospels, this second edition of Four Portraits, One Jesus has been updated to meet the needs of today's students. With clarity and insight, Mark Strauss guides readers to understand the four distinc...
Submissions from 2019
The Son of God and Trinitarian Identity Statements, Matthew Owen and John Anthony Dunne
Classical Trinitarians claim that Jesus—the Son of God—is truly God and that there is only one God and the Father is God, the Spirit is God, and the Father, Son, and Spirit are distinct. However, if the identity statement that ‘the Son is G...
Bible Study as Luminous Converting Encounter: Swiss Pietist Initiatives in 19th-Century French Canada, Glen G. Scorgie
This article examines the understanding and use of Scripture in the evangelistic endeavors of “awakened” pietistic francophone Swiss Protestant missionaries in 19th-century French Canada (after 1867, Quebec). It begins by sketching the root...
Books from 2018
Matthew, Jeannine K. Brown and Kyle Roberts
Including an original translation of the text along with section-by-section commentary, this volume features chapters on “thinking theologically with Matthew” about such themes as kingdom, Christology, the Holy Spirit, and discipleship. Bro...
Filled with the Spirit: Wine and worship in levitical light (Ephesians 5.18-21), John Anthony Dunne
This essay argues that the background of the temple, and particular priestly and levitical activities, explain the logic of Eph. 5.18-21. After setting this text in context and addressing various proposed backgrounds, the proposal of this e...
Relational integration of psychology and Christian theology: Theory, research, and practice, Steven J. Sandage and Jeannine K. Brown
Relational Integration of Psychology and Christian Theology offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary relational framework that integrates theology, psychology, and clinical and other applications. Building on existing models and debates about ...
Relational Integration of Psychology and Christian Theology: Theory, Research, and Practice, Steven J. Sandage and Jeannine K. Brown
Relational Integration of Psychology and Christian Theology offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary relational framework that integrates theology, psychology, and clinical and other applications. Building on existing models and debates about ...
Submissions from 2016
Editorial for the topical issue "bible translation", Mark L. Strauss
Submissions from 2015
Is the future of biblical theology story-shaped?, Jeannine K. Brown
This article explores the concept of story for biblical theology, particularly from the perspective of evangelical scholarship. It is suggested that story offers a framework for biblical theology that avoids undue emphasis on propositional ...
Matthew, Jeannine K. Brown
With large sections devoted to extended teachings and memorable sayings of Jesus, Matthew's Gospel has been a favorite of Christians throughout the centuries. New Testament scholar Jeannine Brown helps readers understand this Gospel as theo...
Relational integration, part II: Relational integration as developmental and intercultural, Jeannine K. Brown and Steven J. Sandage
In Part II of this two-part manuscript, we continue to outline the contours of a relational integration approach to the relationship between psychology and theology. Part I focused on relational integration as embodied and hermeneutical; he...
Suffering and Covenantal Hope in Galatians: A Critique of the ‘Apocalyptic Reading’ and Its Proponents, John Anthony Dunne
This article addresses the so-called 'apocalyptic reading of Paul', taking the representative work of J. Louis Martyn and Martinus C. de Boer as its primary focus. The chief contention is that the 'apocalyptic reading' does not resemble the...
Relational integration, part I: Differentiated relationality between psychology and theology, Steven J. Sandage and Jeannine K. Brown
In Part I of a two-part manuscript, we describe the contours of a relational integration approach to the relationship between psychology and theology. This approach builds on the tradition of the integration of psychology and theology but t...
Submissions from 2013
Matthew’s “least of these” theology and subversion of “us/other” categories, Jeannine K. Brown
Submissions from 2012
Converging horizons for relational integration: Differentiation-based collaboration, Steven J. Sandage and Jeannine K. Brown
Submissions from 2011
A God of Faithfulness : Essays in Honour of J. Gordon McConville on His 60th Birthday, Jamie A. Grant, Alison Lo, and Gordon J. Wenham
This is a Festschrift dedicated to J. Gordon McConville on the occasion of his 60th birthday. This Festschrift is published on the occasion of J. Gordon McConville's 60th birthday in recognition of the outstanding contribution that he has m...
Remnant Motif in Amos, Micah and Zephaniah, Alison Lo
‘Remnant’ is one of the significant motifs in the Minor Prophets. This essay will examine the remnant motif in Amos, Micah and Zephaniah, seeking to find out the commonality of this concept between these three pre-exilic books. In order to ...
Submissions from 2010
Creation's renewal in the gospel of John, Jeannine K. Brown
Submissions from 2006
Just a busybody? A look at the Greco-Roman topos of meddling for defining αcombining comma aboveλλοτριεπίσ κοπος in 1 Peter 4:15, Jeannine K. Brown
Submissions from 2005
Direct engagement of the reader in Matthew's discourses: Rhetorical techniques and scholarly consensus, Jeannine K. Brown
Matthew's five great discourses move from addressing the story's audience to direct engagement with the reader. The first section of the paper demonstrates that this rhetorical function of the discourses has found widespread agreement among...