A Word from Bob For a much longer post on Powlison’s views, see, David Powlison on Common Grace, Biblical Counseling, and Secular Psychology. The Bible and Extra-Biblical Sources In 2007, David Powlison wrote one of his most influential articles: “Cure of Souls (and...
Counseling Wars: Counselors Conflicts The modern nouthetic biblical counseling movement has a long history of conflict. This includes conflict with those “outside” the biblical counseling family—with Christian integrative counselors. It also includes inter-family...
A Word from Bob There is much discussion these days in the modern biblical counseling world concerning how the Reformed doctrine of common grace relates to the biblical counselor’s attitude toward, the use or non-use of, the engagement with, and the evaluation of...
A Word from Bob Any of us—myself included, can become “zealous polemicists.” David’s words, which I was recently reminded of by a Twitter/X friend, Dane Hays, ought to be convicting to all of us—myself included. David Powlison in Cure of Souls on Zealous “Polemicists”...
“Cherry-Picking” Powlison Recent writings in the modern biblical counseling movement have been using David Powlison’s teachings in a “gate-keeping” way. “David Powlison taught _____; so anyone who sways from _____ is not really a true biblical counselor.” These...
Biblical Counseling “Spokespersons” I recently posted about the two original, primary leaders of the “modern” biblical counseling movement: Who Is the Next Jay Adams or David Powlison for the Modern Biblical Counseling Movement. In that post, I noted that with the...
