The Interior Warfare

Authors

Harry N. Huxhold, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Publication Date

12-1-1970

Document Type

Article

Keywords

interior warfare, sin, piety, guilt, faith, luther, st. paul

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

In a recent bulletin of the Academy of · Religion and Mental Health a psychiatrist quotes a Harvard junior, "Many students turn into themselves and become preoccupied with their own thoughts and emotions to the point of obsession.'' We should not be surprised. Your generation has been more sensitive to the nature of man and his interior struggle than most generations. The era of Freudian psychology and existential philosophy has exposed the depths of man's psyche to the point of nausea. It was not too long ago that we greeted the Freudian view of man as the clinical evidence of Pauline anthropology. This we believed was the corrective for the undue optimism about man that grew out of the sloppy applications of the evolutionary hypotheses to man's behavior.

Disciplines

Practical Theology

Scripture References in this Resource (separated by semi-colons)

2 Corinthians 12:7-8;

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

Recommended Citation

Huxhold, Harry N. (1970) "The Interior Warfare," Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 41, Article 71.
Available at: https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol41/iss1/71