Against "Biblical Counseling": For the Bible [Paperback]

Martin Bobgan (Author), Deidre Bobgan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 6, 1994

After years of involvement in the biblical counseling movement, Martin and Deidre Bobgan became concerned with many of the practices and left the movement. In this book they give strong biblical reasons why they believe that Christians should abandon the biblical counseling movement, return to depending on Christ, the Word of God, and the work of the Holy Spirit through the Biblically-ordained ministries and mutual care in the the Body of Chirst. This is a readable, challenging, controversial, and thought-provoking book about the rapidly expanding biblical counseling movement.

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About the Author

Martin Bobgan holds four college degrees, including a doctorate from the University of Colorado, and is the president of PsychoHeresy Awareness Ministries. Deidre holds an M.A. in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. They have coauthored numerous books and articles.

Product Details

• Paperback: 199 pages
• Publisher: EastGate Publishers; 1st edition (September 6, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0941717097
• ISBN-13: 978-0941717090
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,024,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exposes the worldliness of the "Biblical" counseling model, October 25, 1998

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This review is from: Against "Biblical Counseling": For the Bible (Paperback)

A great book where an author dares to speak against positions previously held. This book is for Christians who already are against psychology but have replaced it with the "Biblical Counseling" model. This book shows that concepts such as paid sessions, timed sessions, and segregation of councelor and councelee outside of counceling are not in line with Biblical teachings and instead patterned themself after psychological counseling. Urges readers that Biblical counseling is only an attempt to replace psychological counseling when only a return to the Bible is needed.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Scriptural approach to a hot topic., July 10, 2010

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Read the Bible (Laguna NIguel, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Against "Biblical Counseling": For the Bible (Paperback)

After observing the many abuses within the Nouthetic Counseling Movement, we began searching for someone who knew the movement well and could explain its practices to us. The Bobgans have written a well-researched, Biblical refutation to this powerful movement. Members of it for years, and well-credentialed themselves, the Lord has graciously opened their eyes to the dangers in this psychology-based, control-centered method. It's not that some nouthetic counselers don't do some good - it's that so many do so much harm. The system is fatally flawed, and takes "counseling" out of the hands of the Holy Spirit and His work in believers and puts it into the hands of "counselors" who are trained in the psychological mind games of the world. This book won't be popular, but truth seldom is.