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Christianity and Depression

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It is now universally accepted that we are experiencing a profound mental health epidemic, and too often Christians have struggled to know how to respond. The need for the church to take mental health issues more seriously is urgent, and this is perhaps especially true when it comes to understanding depression.

Offering a theological and biblical account of depression, this book considers how depression has been understood and interpreted by Christians and how plausible and pastorally helpful these understandings are. It offers an important and well-informed resource for those with, or preparing for, positions of pastoral responsibility within the Christian Church.

With a foreword by John Swinton.

256 pages, Paperback

Published March 31, 2020

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"Que nós, você e eu, possamos um dia ser internados em um hospital psiquiátrico em um estado de melancolia desesperadora ou mania insensata pode nos deixar iludidos ou alucinados - esse é um pensamento difícil de se aceitar. Gostamos de pensar que nossa inteligência, nossa força de vontade ou nossa piedade nos salvariam de tal destino. Ouvi um sermão, há algum tempo, no qual o pregador afirmou que o grande aumento das doenças mentais de nossos dias se devia à decadência da fé. Qualquer pessoa, disse ele, que tivesse uma crença firme em Deus nunca sofreria de nervosismo ou colapso mental. Lamentável." (Maurice O'Connor Drury)
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