CEFS 671
Answered Quiz Version 1 - Integration Study Guide 2022.
Liberty University
QUIZ: VERSION 1 – INTEGRATION STUDY GUIDE
(Students who have taken 506 Summer 2020 and prior)
The purpose of this study guide is to assist you in preparing for taking the 20-question
“Integration” section of your comprehensive exam. This guide covers all 60 questions in the
“Integration” exam pool. So, you would be wise to answer each item and study your answers
well. In fact, we highly recommend that you even memorize much of the information you find.
Our hope is that by using this study guide, you will greatly increase your chances of passing the
exam. Questions from Entwistle’s Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity (3rd
Edition) and McMinn’s Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling (Rev.
Ed).
1. What does McMinn believe Christian counseling should primarily focus on?
- Empirically validated Christian counseling model of personality, mental health, and therapy
- Intradisciplinary integration and informed consent. According to McMinn, this foundational
competence for integration is insufficiently emphasized in most Christian counseling
program
2. According to Entwistle, what does the Enemies model of
integration (Christian Combatants subtype) assert?
Christians opposed to any integration of scientific and philosophical psychology with Christian
counseling.
- Scripture stands above creation as an area for exploration and learning
- Religion and psychology are not related and should address their own issues
- psychology is the enemy of Christianity
- Psychology and religion (Christianity) are fundamentally incompatible.
- Rejection and Eradication.
- Nouthetic Counseling—people are not sick but sinful, the use of psychology is idolatrous,
the care of the soul belongs solely to the church, Scripture is sufficient for all
psychological needs. VS Jay Adams
- Mixing psychology and the theology is heretical reaction against anti-religious sentiment of
some psychologists
3. According to Entwistle, what does the Enemies model of integration
(Secular Combatants subtype) assert? Pg. 192,195
- Religious worldview cannot achieve its end; it is an enemy to scientific development.
- religion is the enemy of psychology
- Scientific thinking is incompatible with religious belief
o A secular combatant believes in psychology and science but rejects Christianity
Freud, Ellis and famous atheists (Freud; religion I neurosis, mechanistic
physiology, human rationality, scientific method)
o Religion is infantile need that can be supplanted by science and truth
4. According to Entwistle, what does the Neutral Parties model (also known as the
Page 1 of 10
, CEFS 671
Levels of Explanation model) assert? Pg. 181
- There can be no actual conflict between faith and psychology because they occupy distinct
and non-interacting spheres
Page 2 of 10
Answered Quiz Version 1 - Integration Study Guide 2022.
Liberty University
QUIZ: VERSION 1 – INTEGRATION STUDY GUIDE
(Students who have taken 506 Summer 2020 and prior)
The purpose of this study guide is to assist you in preparing for taking the 20-question
“Integration” section of your comprehensive exam. This guide covers all 60 questions in the
“Integration” exam pool. So, you would be wise to answer each item and study your answers
well. In fact, we highly recommend that you even memorize much of the information you find.
Our hope is that by using this study guide, you will greatly increase your chances of passing the
exam. Questions from Entwistle’s Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity (3rd
Edition) and McMinn’s Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling (Rev.
Ed).
1. What does McMinn believe Christian counseling should primarily focus on?
- Empirically validated Christian counseling model of personality, mental health, and therapy
- Intradisciplinary integration and informed consent. According to McMinn, this foundational
competence for integration is insufficiently emphasized in most Christian counseling
program
2. According to Entwistle, what does the Enemies model of
integration (Christian Combatants subtype) assert?
Christians opposed to any integration of scientific and philosophical psychology with Christian
counseling.
- Scripture stands above creation as an area for exploration and learning
- Religion and psychology are not related and should address their own issues
- psychology is the enemy of Christianity
- Psychology and religion (Christianity) are fundamentally incompatible.
- Rejection and Eradication.
- Nouthetic Counseling—people are not sick but sinful, the use of psychology is idolatrous,
the care of the soul belongs solely to the church, Scripture is sufficient for all
psychological needs. VS Jay Adams
- Mixing psychology and the theology is heretical reaction against anti-religious sentiment of
some psychologists
3. According to Entwistle, what does the Enemies model of integration
(Secular Combatants subtype) assert? Pg. 192,195
- Religious worldview cannot achieve its end; it is an enemy to scientific development.
- religion is the enemy of psychology
- Scientific thinking is incompatible with religious belief
o A secular combatant believes in psychology and science but rejects Christianity
Freud, Ellis and famous atheists (Freud; religion I neurosis, mechanistic
physiology, human rationality, scientific method)
o Religion is infantile need that can be supplanted by science and truth
4. According to Entwistle, what does the Neutral Parties model (also known as the
Page 1 of 10
, CEFS 671
Levels of Explanation model) assert? Pg. 181
- There can be no actual conflict between faith and psychology because they occupy distinct
and non-interacting spheres
Page 2 of 10
