Meeting Christian Voluntarism on its Own Terms

Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 25 (4):275-278 (2018)
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Abstract

Anastasia Philippa Scrutton renders helpful service to philosophers and mental health clinicians by highlighting strongly voluntarist approaches to depression within some present-day Christian writers and communities, particularly Pentecostal and Evangelical Christian communities in the United States and the United Kingdom. Drawing on a number of evangelical Christian books and online resources, she argues that these resources are "voluntaristic because they emphasize the role of libertarian free will and choice in the attitudes and behaviors of people with depression, such that depression is seen to be a sin, or the result of sin, because depression sufferers are able to do otherwise." She counters these...

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