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Richard Baxter on Depression, Scrupulosity (OCD), and the Embodied-Soul
History Teaches…Will We Humbly Learn? When I describe my approach to biblical counseling, I highlight 6 convictions. Among those is my conviction that biblical counselors should be “church history-informed.” We demonstrate humility when we are willing to learn from that great cloud of past spiritual witnesses—from Christians soul physicians throughout church history.Some in our modern biblical counseling movement seem instinctually prone to minimize the potential role of the body in various issu