Power Religion Quotes

“The Christian psychologist often sound Christian and biblical . Many of the theological words are there. But the meanings are different. The current mass psychologization of Christian life and thought is the popular fruit of the integration movement. The logic and drift of the integrationist movement has not been biblical logic and drift. The church is reaping the consequences. Integration or inundation? The deluge is upon us. If Machen wrote his book today, he would entitle it Christianity and Psychologism. The modern psychological evangelicalism, the intellectual flood in which we float or against which we swim, is not Christianity.”
― David A. Powlison, Power Religion: The Selling Out of the Evangelical Church?

“The logo for this growing professional community [Christian psychotherapy] was the word integration. Through articles and books the integrationist agenda was hammered out. Psychology and theology would mutually stimulate one another. Liberals had simply bowed to psychology as a superior authority. In contrast, integrationist evangelicals sought to interact with psychology in a sophisticated manner, hoping to weed out the tares of error form the wheat of truth. They sought to plunder psychological data and explanatory categories, utilizing a grid of general scriptural themes. The sought to profit from psychology's practices and institutional arrangements, under the guidance of general scriptural principles.”
― David A. Powlison, Power Religion: The Selling Out of the Evangelical Church?