Includes bibliographical references and index.

Background to the current predicament -- A place for the Bible in Christian soul care -- The Bible in the history of Christian soul care -- The Bible and current evangelical soul-care paradigms -- Texts and contexts -- Objects of disciplines and their contexts -- Properties of scripture and its relation to other texts -- Interpreting the Bible for Christian psychology and soul care -- Translating the text of other communities for Christian soul care -- Postscript: composing a body of Christian psychology literature : a communal project -- Let there be humans : the semiodiscursive constitution of human beings -- The ground of the created order : the Word of God -- From signs to history : a hermeneutic analysis of human life -- Orders of meaning : a multilevel analysis of human life -- Toward a complex model of human life : semiodiscursive, multilevel, hierarchical and holistic -- The progress of God's word in Christian soul care -- The trinitarian ground and goal of Christian soul care : union and communion with God -- The call to inwardness : opening up to the Wword of God -- Inwardness, part 1 : self-examination -- Inwardness, part 2 : the identification and deconstruction of barriers -- Inwardness, part 3 : the constitutive internalization of the Word of God -- The call to outwardness : the manifestation of Christlikeness -- Promoting Christiformity through the therapeutic delivery of the Word of God.