The Biblical Counseling Movement after Adams

by Heath Lambert

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2012

Overview

Those inside and outside of the biblical counseling movement recognize growing differences between the foundational work of Jay Adams and that of current thought leaders such as David Powlison. But, as any student or teacher of the discipline can attest, those differences have been ill-defined and largely anecdotal until now. Heath Lambert, the first scholar to analyze the movement’s development from within, shows how refinements in framework, methodology, and engagement style are changing the face of the biblical counseling movement as we know it—producing a second generation of counselors who are increasingly competent to counsel. Find out how the biblical counseling movement has changed and improved and how the present-day leadership differs from the leadership of the past, in a respectful effort to evaluate and advance the efficacy of biblical counseling.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Counseling is, therefore by definition, a theological task” (Page 21)

“When counseling is focused on the motivational issues behind behavior, it moves biblical counseling beyond behaviorism and into counseling that is truly biblical and deals with all the issues the Bible itself addresses.” (Page 79)

“While the second generation has not abandoned the need to confront sin, it has sought to advance the movement by seeing the counselee in a more nuanced way as both a sinner and a sufferer.” (Page 50)

“Adams believed that change occurs in a two-part process of dehabituation and rehabituation” (Page 42)

“Second Stage. We need to agree that the vision is a desirable one” (Page 15)

Product Details

• Title: The Biblical Counseling Movement after Adams
• Author: Heath Lambert
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Pastoral counseling › History; Adams, Jay Edward
• ISBNs: 9781433528132, 9781433528149, 9781433528156, 9781433528163, 1433528134, 1433528142, 1433528150, 1433528169
• Resource ID: LLS:BBLCLCNSLNGMDMS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:05:10Z

About Heath Lambert

Heath Lambertis a professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He currently serves as the executive director of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC), and is a founding council board member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition (BCC). He is the author of The Biblical Counseling Movement After Adams, Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace, and the editor (with Stuart Scott) of Counseling the Hard Cases: True Stories Illustrating the Sufficiency of God’s Resources in Scripture.