Concordia Theological Monthly
Article Title
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
