In Search of a More Reliable Truth: Mourning and Donald Capps鈥檚 Psychological Portrait of Jesus
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- 作者：Nathan Carlin
- 关键词：Donald Capps ; Male melancholia ; Psychobiography ; Psychoanalysis of Jesus ; Mourning religion ; Honor ; Hope ; Humor
- 刊名：Pastoral Psychology
- 出版时间：December, 2009
- 出版年：2009
- 期刊代码：49_00312789
- 类别：law
- 卷：58
- 期：5-6
- 页码：463-476
- 数据来源：sp
摘要
This article is an abridged version of a chapter in my dissertation. In my dissertation, I examine the relationship between personal experience and public theory within certain strands of contemporary psychology of religion and pastoral theology. My guiding theory is Peter Homans’s “mourning religion” thesis. In this chapter, I examine the life and work of Donald Capps, who is the most prolific contemporary writer in the fields of psychology of religion and pastoral theology. I argue that Capps addressed various personal losses in a deeply personal way during his fifties, and I believe that the key moment for Capps in overcoming his melancholia occurred after his application of his melancholia theory to Jesus, because there Capps was able to integrate and to sustain in a satisfying way his various selves and, therefore, open himself up to mourn in a non-defensive way—the way of humor.