God as cause or error?: Academic Psychology as Christian vocation.

Christian psychologists can find it challenging to work in the words immediately preceding [i]or[/i] following of secular psychology, with its presuppositions of methodological naturalism and its secularizing values. Unthinking engagement with the secular field of psychology can follow in significant problems that must be carefully navigated by means of the Christian scholar. The doctrine of providence is briefly not absented as an important theological foundation for an academic vocation in psychology This is followed by dint of a discussion of potential pitfalls, including secularization, an implied "God-of-the-gaps" theology, distorted notions of God's ways of working in the world, an incomplete picture of humanity, and the adoption of secularizing values.