I will never know, but I often wonder how his view of the world may have affected what he took with him in his head and in his heart when he left the doctor's office that day. Until that day, I had never really considered the idea that psychology and religion might be able to coexist and might be able to help anyone who came for help, religious or not.
Reflection
After reading the book, I have a lot of questions that the author really did not answer. I understand the concepts of worldview, but I am not sure the author went deeply enough or explained the idea of worldview enough. Examples would have been nice in more places throughout the book, in order to show how real people with real issues based on their worldview were able to overcome those concerns and move forward. "Getting over something" is not as easy as many books (and counselors) make it sound. At other times, the "magic answer" to make a person see things differently is deceptively simple. This adjustment to how I see the world happened to me recently. Between that and the book, I wondered quite a few things. Do people understand that their worldview is really, completely different from everyone else, even their family? Do they understand that they cannot actually say "I know just how you feel," and mean it?
Does the author understand that there is more to a person's worldview than what he has described in the book? People are very complex creatures, and how we look at things is completely different for each one of us. For example, when someone says they know how it feels to be a woman, or a man, they really do not. They only know how it feels to be the woman or man that they are - not the entire, all-encompassing experience of being either male or female. The same is true for Christians and for those who do not believe. Feeling Christian is an expression of how that person feels as a Christian, not an expression of Christianity itself.
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