Humanist Psychology as Secularized Theology? Cover Image

Humanistická psychologie jako sekularizovaná teologie?
Humanist Psychology as Secularized Theology?

Author(s): Vít Machálek
Subject(s): Psychology, Theology and Religion
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: Humanist Psychology; Quasi religion; the Cult of Self worship; Erich Fromm; Carl Rogers; Abraham Maslow;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to evaluate quasi religious elements in humanist psychology with a special focus on Erich Fromm, Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. The study analyses concepts which may be denoted as a secularized "humanist theology". It refers to the fact that the authors of those concepts were originally connected with the Jewish or Christian faith and after their apostasy radically reinterpreted it or replaced it with a new religion. The humanist "cult of self worship" explicitly or implicitly locates godhood into man and at the same time excludes the possibility of a personal relationship between man and God. The rise of this new religiosity connected with sacralised psychology was paradoxically made also easy by certain forms of modern Jewish and Christian thinking.

  • Issue Year: XXII/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 113-134
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Czech