Theistic Mental Discipline Theory

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What is the theistic mental discipline theory and who were the founding fathers?

-- Jenn Webb (Jennybean810@aol.com), July 11, 2002

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I searched the internet for this one and found only one source at the following link

http://home.okstate.edu/homepages.nsf/toc/EPSY5463C1

I'm fairly sure that the phrase is not a standard one referring to an actual theory or school of thought. It appears to refer to what was more typically known as character education, which was a very strong movement during the first half of the second century. There are annotations on a number of books on character education in my annotated bibliography Psychology and Theology in Western Thought (Kraus-Thomson, 1984). Psychologist leaders in the field include Hartshorne and May, who published a number of books related to character that were done under the auspices of the Character Research Project. There were also Studies in Character that were published by the University of Iowa--titles of those are also included in my bibliography. Much, but not all, of this was applied psychology of religion, and character education included varieties of Sunday School curricula as well. Another well-known person in this field was Fritz Kunkel. You might check an encyclopedia of religion for "character education." All of this would be in the tradition that recognizes "will power" and focuses on the training of the will.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), July 13, 2002.


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