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Is “Empathy” the “Culprit” in Our Biblical Counseling World?
“Untethered Empathy”Recently I’ve seen some biblical counselors claim (without documentation) that “the sin of empathy”/“untethered empathy” is a root cause of current problems in our biblical counseling world. It is claimed that empathy is causing counselors to turn to pragmatic secular methods rather than clinging to scriptural truth. Untethered empathy, it is claimed, is behind the failure of some biblical counselors to guard the gates against the onslaught of secular psychology.Rather than r