Psychology, Christianity, and Levels of Explanation

The matrix of “Psychology, Christianity” and the “Levels of Explanation”
The conditions expressed in the case can be seen from two points of views; the first point of
view is related to the psychology where scientific concepts and evidence-based practices can
be administered to understand the biological changes that are taking place. This approach also
indicates towards “normalcy” that should be gained by the subject with the help of clinical
interventions and regular sessions of the consultation. However, when we have a look at this
approach to inflict a treatment on the subject from a theological point of view or the point of
view of Christianity, then we need to undermine the scientific approach for a while (Lavey,
2013).
How psychology explains it and how Christianity may have a different opinion
When we analyze the case study symptomatically and try to figure out a diagnostic with the
help of the “level of explanation” we find that psychology identifies it as reductionism. It
gives us the structure of a pyramid, the first ladder is connected with the biological
expression of the feeling, the second ladder belongs to physiological explanations where an
individual applies the same set of emotions under a cognitive framework and compares his or
her internal states with the environment around it. The third state is the state when an
individual tries to draw some social and cultural explanations to his or her personal thought
processes (Kosits, 2013).
Prior to comparing two different streams of education, psychology and Christianity we
should never undermine the fact that almost three centenaries ago, psychology as a subject
was heavily borrowing concepts from the books of theology and popular literature. The
advent of realism in the stream of literature and the development of neurology in connection
with the physiology are two turning points that gave rise to psychological theories. It is an
inexact science (Sisemore, 2019). The teachings of Christianity, on the other hand, explain