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Resisting Therapy Culture
- Author
- Matthew Loftus
- Narrator
- Basil Sands
- Publisher
- ChristianAudio.com
- Publish Date
- 17 August 2026
- Run Time
- 7 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Let Churches Be Churches and Therapists Be Therapists
We live in an age where "therapy culture" dominates our cultural milieu. Everywhere we look, therapeutic language and psychological concepts are popularized, misapplied, and lose their medical significance. Therapy and psychiatry are good practices, but when people begin to filter everything in life through a therapeutic lens, it becomes harmful rather than helpful.
The church is not immune to this phenomenon. Increasingly, people's expectations of the church and its leaders are viewed through the lens of psychological health and wellness.
In this book, Matthew Loftus unpacks how this kind of "therapy culture" can distort the Christian life. He argues that the church cannot do for people what therapy and psychiatry are designed to do. While church should be a place of healing and love for people who are suffering from mental illness, churches and their leaders should focus on what they are called to do: bringing people together to worship God.
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Details
- Author
- Matthew Loftus
- Narrator
- Basil Sands
- Duration
- 7 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 August 2026
- ISBN
- 9781545933244
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- ChristianAudio.com
- Genre
- Christianity, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity
Synopsis
Let Churches Be Churches and Therapists Be TherapistsWe live in an age where "therapy culture" dominates our cultural milieu. Everywhere we look, therapeutic language and psychological concepts are popularized, misapplied, and lose their medical significance. Therapy and psychiatry are good practices, but when people begin to filter everything in life through a therapeutic lens, it becomes harmful rather than helpful. The church is not immune to this phenomenon. Increasingly, people's expectations of the church and its leaders are viewed through the lens of psychological health and wellness.In this book, Matthew Loftus unpacks how this kind of "therapy culture" can distort the Christian life. He argues that the church cannot do for people what therapy and psychiatry are designed to do. While church should be a place of healing and love for people who are suffering from mental illness, churches and their leaders should focus on what they are called to do: bringing people together to worship God.
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