I am a social studies teacher at a private school. I am currently
reviewing textbooks for an AP psychology class. I am having a
difficult time finding a book written from a Christian worldview. Does
any one have any suggestions?
They are mutually exclusive cosmologies. Christianity is based on the

They are mutually exclusive cosmologies. Christianity is based on the
struggle between good and evil. Science is based on the observation of a
myriad shades of gray, and what Christianity says is evil, the scientist
says is psychopathology.

The alternative to Christian is Aristotelean. Read his "Nicomachean
Ethics".http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html

The evildoer is not damned, but demented.

Thanks for the reply. All of us have presuppositions. Its not
wrong to have them, just to deny that we have them. No matter
what the subject, we all approach it with a firm grip on our
own presuppositions. ...

Derek Spalla wrote:

Thanks for the reply. All of us have presuppositions. Its not
wrong to have them, just to deny that we have them. No matter
what the subject, we all approach it with a firm grip on our
own presuppositions. ...

Actually the Cartesian paradigm shift specifically addressed this
aspect of scientific epistemology by doubting presuppositions.

You can read a couple of pages about it here:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6pz3pr

"Let us consider, for example, the man who first posed, in a
paradigmatic way, the problem of knowledge and cognition in
more or less the form it has kept to our day, Descartes. ..."

His approach attempts to filter out presuppositions.

Actually the Cartesian paradigm shift specifically addressed this
aspect of scientific epistemology by doubting presuppositions.

You can read a couple of pages about it here:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6pz3pr

"Let us consider, for example, the man who first posed, in a
paradigmatic way, the problem of knowledge and cognition in
more or less the form it has kept to our day, Descartes. ..."

His approach attempts to filter out presuppositions.

Actually the Cartesian paradigm shift specifically addressed this
aspect of scientific epistemology by doubting presuppositions.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/4zuhx3

Hmmm...interesting, but isn't he presupposing evil?

"I must therefore", he wrote, "take into account the possibility
that heaven and earth, all forms in space, are nothing but illusions
and fantasies used by an evil spirit to trap my credulity..."

I think that's a poetic aside to the point that is more along the line
of "appearances can be deceiving".

Speaking of which, that is of course a significant theme in Buddhism:
the idea that the perceived world is illusory (Samsara).

A couple of quotables for instance:-

"Whatever we imagine it turns to be otherwise." - from the orthodox
Theravada canon MN III, 103:http://preview.tinyurl.com/6frz5y

And from the Mahayana Lankavatara Sutra:
"A world of multitudes is ... a mirage; ... only an appearance to
people."  http://lirs.ru/do/lanka_eng/lanka-nondiacritical.htm#95

I've been trying to think of a parallel in Christianity but could only
think of Christ's temptation in the wilderness.

You could imagine Descartes refusing to be budged by illusion after
illusion, letting go of anything he depends on, like the birds that
don't worry about tomorrow.

... For something to be good science it must be observable,
repeatable, and measurable. So the subject of ultimate
origins, from whatever worldview is chosen, cannot be
substantiated.

From my view, it takes more faith to believe what Descartes
is proposing than it does to believe in Creationism.

No matter which worldview we choose, whether Christian or
that everything is illusionary, takes some degree of faith.

Psychology and religion are very similar in that both are unscientific
and both seek to control people's minds.  It is uncommon to find a
psychologist who incorporates religious ideology, but more common to
find  religionists who incorporate psychological babble to give their
religious crap an air of pseudoscientific authority.

You mean Descartes' scepticism is implausible.  Nevertheless
he pulls his knowledge back to the least or only thing he thinks
he can be sure of.  He doesn't speculate on what founds his
existence.

No matter which worldview we choose, whether Christian or
that everything is illusionary, takes some degree of faith.

Belief or radical scepticism, is that the choice?  The sciences
accept statistical significance, but proof is preferred.  For
inspiration belief in extraterrestrial life or ESP is fine.

I am a social studies teacher at a private school. I am currently
reviewing textbooks for an AP psychology class. I am having a
difficult time finding a book written from a Christian worldview. Does
any one have any suggestions?

... so it only makes sense to study psychology from
God's perspective

Derek Spalla wrote:

... so it only makes sense to study psychology from
God's perspective

If God's mind is impartial and serene knowing it wouldn't
change any of the good psychology textbooks out there.

Chris Degnen wrote:
Derek Spalla wrote:

... so it only makes sense to study psychology from
God's perspective

If God's mind is impartial and serene knowing it wouldn't
change any of the good psychology textbooks out there.

Maybe it's not God who is wrong, but man...