Has anyone heard of this before? It was mentioned in a daily devotional that I receive and have been posting in the Cafe Blog.
"Man was created to have seven basic needs. Each of us has a need for dignity, authority, blessing and provision, security, purpose and meaning, freedom and boundary, intimate love and companionship. When we go outside God’s provision to meet these needs, we get into trouble."
A Maslow was famous for claiming man had needs and the needs fell in a heirarchy.
The highest need for man he said was self actualization. His claims all applied to the carnal man and gve no meaning to life that one gets when submitted to Jesus.
Maslow provided labels for that which we already knew.
Psychologists like Freud, Adler and Frankl interpreted the "self actualization" in different ways.
Of the three approaches, Frankl comes the closest to including a spiritual element of the "soul". He taught that the greatest need for mankind (self-actualization) was not Freudian (reconciliation with sexual issues) or Adlerian (need for power), but that everyone's lives must have MEANING.
The 7 needs have to do with, I believe, the way we correctly understand and live out the way God views us.
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1. God 2. Good woman 3. Food 4. Fishin hole 5. Food 6. Ability to cook food 7. did I mention food ?
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Maslow provided labels for that which we already knew.
Psychologists like Freud, Adler and Frankl interpreted the "self actualization" in different ways.
Of the three approaches, Frankl comes the closest to including a spiritual element of the "soul". He taught that the greatest need for mankind (self-actualization) was not Freudian (reconciliation with sexual issues) or Adlerian (need for power), but that everyone's lives must have MEANING.
The 7 needs have to do with, I believe, the way we correctly understand and live out the way God views us.
Meaning and fullfillment. Freud was really on an agenda to explain humanity in abscence of a bible, Creator and biblical view.
Frankl was a psych and philosopher. He also was open in putting his claims in context.
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The very base of logo-therapy is the purpose of life, “which admits of but one possibility of high moral behaviour: namely, in man’s attitude to his existence, and existence restricted by external forces.... Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.” (1963, p. 106)
The very idea, that individual suffering is helpful on the path of human development, is also one of the basic teachings of Buddha, and is found in most – Eastern and Western - mystical traditions as well.
The integrated thinking of Frankl:
Although Frankl was a practicing psychologist all his life, at the same time he was also a philosopher. In 1948 he wrote his dissertation on philosophy. In this work, titled “The Unconscious God”, he examined the relationship between religion and psychology.
For all of his life he maintained the conviction that these should not be split disciplines.
Attitudinal values can only be developed by personal suffering. At the bottom of the existential values is transcendence. Only our acknowledgment of God’s transcendence can bring us to suprameaning (and personal well-being). And turning away from God is the ultimate source of pathological human conditions. Frankl states that when “the angel in us is repressed, he turns into a demon”. (1975, p. 70)
Has anyone heard of this before? It was mentioned in a daily devotional that I receive and have been posting in the Cafe Blog.
"Man was created to have seven basic needs. Each of us has a need for dignity, authority, blessing and provision, security, purpose and meaning, freedom and boundary, intimate love and companionship. When we go outside God’s provision to meet these needs, we get into trouble."
I can see the point. Depending on who you ask there might be a different number of needs labled differently, but the point isn't bad. Look at how God provided Adam's needs in the garden. Man has been trying to meet those needs in one way or another since the fall.
Meaning and fullfillment. Freud was really on an agenda to explain humanity in abscence of a bible, Creator and biblical view.
Frankl was a psych and philosopher. He also was open in putting his claims in context.
Attitudinal values can only be developed by personal suffering. At the bottom of the existential values is transcendence. Only our acknowledgment of God’s transcendence can bring us to suprameaning (and personal well-being). And turning away from God is the ultimate source of pathological human conditions. Frankl states that when “the angel in us is repressed, he turns into a demon”. (1975, p. 70)
Phil 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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...Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ...(Acts 20:21)
I can see the point. Depending on who you ask there might be a different number of needs labled differently, but the point isn't bad. Look at how God provided Adam's needs in the garden. Man has been trying to meet those needs in one way or another since the fall.
God was providing for those needs even before the fall.
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