H Newton Malony
Biographic Data
| ID | 253019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Newton Malony |
| GIVEN NAMES | H Newton |
| FAMILY NAME | Malony |
| SIGNATURE | MALONY H N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fuller Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Laurence Binet Brown (1927–2011)
Methodist Personality Transformation in Context: A Response to Haartman
Haartman's analysis of ecstatic experience in early Methodism is contextualized within a brief review of the history of the movement and the theological assertions that underlay these religious behaviors. Wesley emphasized individual, as opposed to institutional religion and affirmed inductive as contrasted with deductive theology. “Sanctification,” Wesley's term for personality transformation, is seen as positive ego development rather than regr…
Changes in Attitudes Toward Religion Among Those with Mental Illness
The Prevalence of Religious Coping Among Persons With Persistent Mental Illness
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of religious coping among persons with persistent mental illness and to gain a preliminary understanding of the relationship between religious coping and symptom severity and overall functioning. METHODS: A total of 406 individuals who were diagnosed as having a mental illness and who were patients at one of 13 Los Angeles County mental health facilities completed a survey consist…
Response to Rambo and DeMarinis
Taking cues from the dual professional roles of psychologist and ordained clergyperson, the critiques of Rarnbo and DeMarinis are considered from within a concern for what counselors of all types must do in the Western cultural context of limited duration for ther- apy and a functional definition of health that focuses on social functioning. Although ac- knowledging that Nelson (1978) may have been misread, the lack of a necessary spiritual dimen…
Factor Analysis of the Religious Status Inventory in the Estonian Language
The Religious Status Inventory (RSI), a widely used English language measure of Christian religious practice and maturity, has been subjected to factor analysis in which 6 first-order factors and 1 second-order factor were found. The basic dimen- sions on which the scale was constructed were only partially confirmed. This study factor analyzed an Estonian translation of the RSI utilizing Estonian students and church members. Fourteen first-order …
Counseling Body/Soul Persons
This article considers the implications of nonreductive physicalism for counseling. A discussion of the secular and religious meanings of soul in contemporary culture is followed by several critiques of the assertion that human nature should be understood from a unified, monistic, psychosomatic point of view. After proposing definitions for spiritual capacity, religion, and faith, a model for embodied spiritual counseling that includes a place fo…
From the Ashes: Making Sense of Waco (Book)
John Wesley's Primitive Physick: An 18th-century Health Psychology
John Wesley was an 18th- century Anglican priest whose evangelistic efforts led to the establishment of Methodist Societies in England, Ireland and America. He became greatly concerned for the spiritual and physical health of the poor. Wesley wrote a book entitled Primitive Physick: Or, an Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases. He was deeply impressed with the few physicians who called for the prevention of disease through healthy livin…
Understanding Religious Conversion . Lewis R. Rambo
Religion and the Individual: A Social-Psychological Perspective
Psychology of Religion: Personalities, Problems, Possibilities
Religious Maturity and Psychological Distress Among Older Christian Women
Among the elderly, research has shown a relation between stressful life events and greater psychological distress. This distress has been shown to be mediated, however, by numerous coping factors. There is moderate support in the literature for suggesting that religion is one of those factors that function to lower distress as persons age. Although previous research has surveyed religious activity, religious beliefs, and religious importance, it …
Making a religious diagnosis: The use of religious assessment in pastoral care and counseling
Handbook of Religious Conversion
Religious Development in Childhood and Youth: An Empirical Study
Handbook of Religious Conversion
Response to Vitz: The Search for Method
The author reacts to Vitz's (1992a, 1992b) two preceding articles. Three major critiques are offered. First, it is suggested that, contrary to Vitz's assumption, not all people live by narrative or story; many are story-less and need help from therapists to construct their stories. Second, although Vitz (1992a) dichotomizes narrative thinking and scientific thinking, it is suggested that such a dichotomy is unrealistic: Both types of thinking are…
Religion in Psychodynamic Perspective: The Contributions of Paul W. Pruyser
The Body in the Psychology of Religion
Hutch's position that psychology of religion has neglected the mortal body is affirmed but reinterpreted. Although it may be true that psychology has adopted as postmodern bias toward defining the human being as primarily cognitive, it is less true that the psychology of religion has been unaware of how religion emerges from the experience of living. Noting that Hutch could be understood as a modern Romantic, I reinterpret, in an alternate frame-…
Clinical psychologists' religious and spiritual orientations and their practice of psychotherapy.
California psychologists' religiosity and psychotherapy
Should Clergy Counsel Suicidal Persons
Discusses the issues involved in the pastoral counseling of suicidal persons in light of the Nally vs. Grace Community Church case, with which the authors are well acquainted and in which they were actually involved at various stages. Asserts that clergy have an indispensable and crucial role to play in the wholistic treatment of persons suffering from clinical depression which may lead to suicide-threatening hehavior. Alerts clergy to factors of…
Effective ministerial style as perceived by denominational leadership
Men and women in the clergy: Stresses, strains, and resources
Psychologists and Religion: Professional Factors and Personal Belief
Religious Maturity and Psychological Distress Among Older Christian Women
Among the elderly, research has shown a relation between stressful life events and greater psychological distress. This distress has been shown to be mediated, however, by numerous coping factors. There is moderate support in the literature for suggesting that religion is one of those factors that function to lower distress as persons age. Although previous research has surveyed religious activity, religious beliefs, and religious importance, it …
Counseling Body/Soul Persons
This article considers the implications of nonreductive physicalism for counseling. A discussion of the secular and religious meanings of soul in contemporary culture is followed by several critiques of the assertion that human nature should be understood from a unified, monistic, psychosomatic point of view. After proposing definitions for spiritual capacity, religion, and faith, a model for embodied spiritual counseling that includes a place fo…
John Wesley's Primitive Physick: An 18th-century Health Psychology
John Wesley was an 18th- century Anglican priest whose evangelistic efforts led to the establishment of Methodist Societies in England, Ireland and America. He became greatly concerned for the spiritual and physical health of the poor. Wesley wrote a book entitled Primitive Physick: Or, an Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases. He was deeply impressed with the few physicians who called for the prevention of disease through healthy livin…
Handbook of Religious Conversion
The Body in the Psychology of Religion
Hutch's position that psychology of religion has neglected the mortal body is affirmed but reinterpreted. Although it may be true that psychology has adopted as postmodern bias toward defining the human being as primarily cognitive, it is less true that the psychology of religion has been unaware of how religion emerges from the experience of living. Noting that Hutch could be understood as a modern Romantic, I reinterpret, in an alternate frame-…
The Clinical Assessment of Optimal Religious Functioning
The Role of Psychological Assessment in Predicting Ministerial Effectiveness
Religious Glossolalia: A Longitudinal Study of Personality Changes
Heretofore there have been no published studies on personality changes resulting from glossolalia which included assessment prior to the experience. This research attempted to study the effects of this phenomenon by measuring persons in Life in the Spirit on personality and attitudinal variables pre, post, and three months after the seminar. Persons who became glossolalic were compared to those who were already glossolalic and those who did not b…
Psychology and the Church: Toward a Model for Relating
This essay discusses the need to define the relations between psychology and the church as more than the consultation over pastoral counseling cases. A paradigm for understanding these relationships is proposed. Definitions are given for the church and for psychology. The church is seen as a place, a plan, a program and a people. Psychology is defined as the attempt to understand, explain and influence behavior. Psychology can relate to the churc…
Theology after Freud
Religious Experience: Its Nature and Function in the Human Psyche
The Study of “Religiosity”: Its History and Its Future
Dittes’ distinctions of “inside” versus “outside” views of religiosity and unidimensional versus multidimensional definitions are useful for reviewing the empirical research. Correlations of religiosity with undesirable traits have encouraged the development of more precise measurement tools. Factor analytic studies have offered support for multidimensional definitions, which have greater explanatory power. Future research should explore religiou…
New Methods in the Psychology of Religion
Preferred assumptions for the study of religion by psychologists are noted. They are religious empathy, grounding in general psychology, and experimental methodology. Possible new approaches to the psychological study of religion are discussed as they related to (1) theory (cf. cognitive dissonance and experiencing); (2) subjects (secular religionists and encounter group participants); (3) techniques (game theory and obedience to authority); and …
Religious Glossolalia: A Longitudinal Study of Personality Changes
Heretofore there have been no published studies on personality changes resulting from glossolalia which included assessment prior to the experience. This research attempted to study the effects of this phenomenon by measuring persons in Life in the Spirit on personality and attitudinal variables pre, post, and three months after the seminar. Persons who became glossolalic were compared to those who were already glossolalic and those who did not b…
The Nature of Man: A Social Psychological Perspective
Current Perspectives in the Psychology of Religion
The Retention of Religious Experiences
Current Perspectives in the Psychology of Religion
The future of an illusion - the illusion of the future an historic dialogue on the value of religion between Oskar Pfister and Sigmund Freud
Between 1908 and 1939 Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister engaged in a lively dialogue on the dynamics and value of religion. This is an account of that dialogue replete with excerpts from their letters. Freud held a negative view: for him religion was an illusion that had no future. Pfitser viewed religion positively, seeing it as the only illusion with a future. The major differences in their positions are noted and the contemporary import of these…
Response by the Authors to the Several Reactions to A Critique of Ruth Carter Stapleton
A Critique of Ruth Carter Stapleton'S Ministry of “Inner Healing”
An examination of the major components of Ruth Carter Stapleton's system of “inner healing” reveals that childhood experiences contribute greatly to her understanding of the origins of emotional imbalance within an individual. These experiences in turn become the foundation for Mrs. Stapleton's healing ministry, despite her inability to recognize their impact. We conclude that only when Mrs. Stapleton clearly resolves the significance of these ev…
Psychologists and Religion: Professional Factors and Personal Belief
Psychology and Faith: The Christian Experience of Eighteen Psychologists
Religious Experiencing: A Phenomenological Analysis of a Unique Behavioral Event
This article proposes a paradigm for understanding religious experience which is based on the S-O-R model of stimulus-response psychology. Religious experience is similar to other higher order experiences in that it includes organismic processing which mediates between a stimulus and a response. All three components (stimulus, organism, response) are necessary for these types of experiences to occur. In religious terms, God-Faith-Work (S-O-R) go …
Filipino psychic surgery: Myth, magic, or miracle
Psychology from a Christian Perspective
When Prophecy Failed: Cognitive Dissonance in the Prophetic Traditions of the Old Testament
A Theological and Psychological Rationale for Assertiveness Training
Christians sometimes avoid assertiveness training because they believe it conflicts with Christian values stressing self-sacrifice. The present article argues that while Christians need to be wise consumers of this or any other form of skills training, assertiveness and Christian values are much more consonant than they are dissonant. The article clarifies the psychological concept of assertiveness, examines related theological-scriptural materia…
Resolving Church Conflicts: A Case Study Approach for Local Congregations
Tongues of the Spirit: A Study of Pentecostal Glossolalia and Related Phenomena
Preferred Means of Hostility Expression among Missionaries: An Exploratory Study
The effects of the stresses in a missionary's environment were examined in terms of their responses to a measure of hostility and an index of stress. The Buss-Durkee Inventory (BD; Buss & Durkee, 1957) was used to measure hostility among 34 missionaries, 15 of whom were currently on the mission field and 19 of whom were home on furlough. The groups were compared with the norms on the BD for hostility scores and preferred means of hostility expres…
Psychology of Religion
PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION Get access Psychology and Christianity Integrative Readings Edited by J Roland Fleck and John D Carter Abingdon Press, 1980 428 pages $14 95 H Newton Malony H Newton Malony Fuller Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LI, Issue 1, March 1983, Pages 127-b–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LI.1.127-b Published: 01 Mar…
Near-death experiences and religion: A further investigation
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