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Pastoring the Whole Person by Erin I. Smith
B&H Academic

Pastoring the Whole Person

Psychology for Ministry Practice

Erin I. Smith

B&H Academic · Counseling
Published September 2026 · ISBN 9798384507932

From the publisher

In Pastoring the Whole Person, professor and research psychologist Erin Smith draws on two decades of work to equip church leaders with tools from human psychology so they can better understand and serve people with the gospel for the whole person. Smith begins with a case for the value of psychological science for Christians, rooted in a theological understanding of human embodiment and creaturely limits.

Description adapted from the publisher, B&H Academic.

About the author. Erin I. Smith (University of California, Riverside) is Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor of Research and a professor of psychology at California Baptist University.

The Theology Shelf note: we'll add our own take once we've read it. For now, this page gathers the publisher's description.

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