Liberty University Baptist Theological Seminary

A Paper Submitted to Dr. Marcus Tanner, LMFTA in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course, Theology and Spirituality in Counseling PACO 507 - D05

Name of Student: John Santiago
Student ID: L24473755
Class: PACO 507-D05 LUO
Instructor’s Name: Dr. Marcus Tanner, LMFTA
Date Submitted: 03/20/2014

Summary
Dr. Crabb’s book “Effective Biblical Counseling: a Model for Helping Caring Christians Become Capable Counselors,” (Crabb, 1997), breaks problematic areas up into two categories. The first categories are those resulting from natural or physical causes. The second is composed mostly of problem that are essentially moral. It has been said by some and demeaned by others that Dr. Crabb has a somewhat unique approach to counseling. His Biblical counseling explained in his afore mentioned book and his first book, Basic Principles of Biblical Counseling, extols upon the basic parts and theories of his system, along with many changes in theology and he places an emphasis on his belief that, “. . . the most basic problem of every human being is his separation from God, a gulf made necessary by the fact that God is holy and we are not" (p. 17).
Primary Goal: (What is the desired outcome?).
Crabb first describes for us what he terms as; “Separate but equal” approach (Crabb, 1977). This approach representitive of those who would believe through Christ, “scripture deals with the spiritual and theological while psychology falls into a different category with medical paradigms,” (1977). This theory is that people with true psychological problems should turn to professionally trained psychologists for help with them. Though Crabb’s e “Effective Biblical Counseling”, (1977), reveals four approaches to integrating the Bible and counseling, foremost amongst these concepts are Crabb’s