Donald Eric Capps

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Donald Eric Capps

Religious Studies

#986

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#1819

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#424

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Theology

#824

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#1698

Historical Rank

#317

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Doctorate Pastoral Theology Princeton Theological Seminary

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According to Wikipedia, Donald Eric Capps was an American theologian and William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Biography Donald Eric Capps was born in Omaha, Nebraska. After studying at Lewis & Clark College and Yale Divinity School and University of Chicago , he earned his Ph.D. also at the University of Chicago in 1970. His dissertation explored a psycho-historical analysis of the personality of the English theologian John Henry Cardinal Newman, and particularly his vocational struggles.

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The Depleted Self: Sin in a Narcissistic Age (1993) (115)
Reframing: A New Method in Pastoral Care (1990) (99)
Agents of hope : a pastoral psychology (1995) (97)
The Child's Song: The Religious Abuse of Children (1995) (77)
The play of the imagination : toward a psychoanalysis of culture (1986) (60)
Life cycle theory and pastoral care (2002) (56)
Religion and child abuse: Perfect together. (1992) (50)
Clinical Handbook of Pastoral Counseling (1985) (48)
A Time to Laugh: The Religion of Humor (2005) (48)
The Biographical Process: Studies in the History and Psychology of Religion (1976) (43)
The Psychology of Petitionary Prayer (1982) (42)
Biblical Approaches to Pastoral Counseling (1981) (41)
The Psychological Benefits of Humor (2006) (39)
Book Review and Note: Men, Religion, and Melancholia: James, Otto, Jung, and Erikson (1998) (37)
The poet's gift : toward the renewal of pastoral care (1993) (36)
Jesus the Village Psychiatrist (2008) (35)
The Decades of Life: Relocating Erikson's Stages (2004) (35)
Men and Their Religion: Honor, Hope, and Humor (2002) (34)
Deadly sins and saving virtues (1987) (29)
Religion and Humor: Estranged Bedfellows (2006) (27)
Giving Counsel: A Minister's Guidebook (2001) (27)
The Lessons of Art Theory for Pastoral Theology (1999) (25)
John Nash's Delusional Decade: A Case of Paranoid Schizophrenia (2003) (24)
Social Phobia: Alleviating Anxiety in an Age of Self-Promotion (1999) (24)
A Spiritual Person (2011) (21)
Sublimation and Symbolization: The Case of Dental Anxiety and the Symbolic Meaning of Teeth (2011) (21)
The Deadly Sins and Saving Virtues: How They Are Viewed Today by Clergy (1989) (20)
Mother, Melancholia, and Humor in Erik H. Erikson’s Earliest Writings (2008) (20)
From Masturbation to Homosexuality: A Case of Displaced Moral Disapproval (2003) (19)
The Hunger of the Heart Reflections on the Confessions of Augustine (1991) (19)
Publication Trends in the Psychology of Religion to 1974 (1976) (19)
You've Got To Be Kidding! (2009) (19)
Sex in the Parish: Social-Scientific Explanations for why it Occurs (1993) (19)
Erikson’s Schedule of Human Strengths and the Childhood Origins of the Resourceful Self (2012) (18)
John Nash's Predelusional Phase: A Case of Acute Identity Confusion (2003) (18)
Pastoral Counseling and Preaching: A Quest for an Integrated Ministry (1980) (17)
Augustine’s Confessions: The Story of a Divided Self and the Process of Its Unification (2007) (17)
Re-Calling Ministry (1999) (17)
Erikson's Theory of Religious Ritual: the Case of the Excommunication of Ann Hibbens (1979) (16)
The Struggle for Life; A Companion to William James's "The Varieties of Religious Experience" (1996) (16)
Leonardo's Mona Lisa: Iconic Center of Male Melancholic Religion (2004) (15)
On losing the soul : essays in the social psychology of religion (1995) (15)
John Nash, Game Theory, and the Schizophrenic Brain (2011) (15)
Sigmund Freud and James Putnam: Friendship as a Form of Sublimation (2010) (15)
Freud and Freudians on religion : a reader (2001) (15)
Young Clergy: A Biographical-Developmental Study (2006) (15)
Living in Limbo: Life in the Midst of Uncertainty (2010) (14)
John Nash's Postdelusional Period: A Case of Transformed Narcissism (2003) (14)
Child’s Play: The Creativity of Older Adults (2012) (12)
The Lessons of Artistic Creativity for Pastoral Theologians (2010) (12)
The Tooth Fairy: Psychological Issues Related to Baby Tooth Loss and Mythological Working Through (2014) (12)
Erik H. Erikson’s Young Man Luther: A Classic Revisited (2015) (12)
John Henry Newman: A Study of Vocational Identity (1970) (12)
The Bad-Enough Mother (2005) (12)
James and Dewey on Belief and Experience (2004) (11)
Men, Religion, and Melancholia (2017) (11)
The deadly sins and saving virtues: How they are viewed by laity (1989) (11)
Relaxed Bodies, Emancipated Minds, and Dominant Calm (2009) (11)
Agents of Hope (1995) (10)
The Letting Loose of Hope: Where Psychology of Religion and Pastoral Care Converge (1997) (10)
Don Quixote as Moral Narcissist: Implications for Mid-Career Male Ministers (1999) (10)
The Aging Process as Forward Movement and the Case for Detours and Backward Steps (2012) (10)
God Diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (2009) (10)
Sin, narcissism, and the changing face of conversion (1990) (10)
The “Religiously Mediated Change” of 11 Gay Men: A Case of Unexceptional Sublimation (2008) (10)
Erikson's “inner space”: Where art and religion converge (1996) (10)
Encounter With Erikson: Historical Interpretation and Religious Biography (1977) (10)
AUGUSTINE AS NARCISSIST: COMMENTS ON PAUL RIGBY'S ‘PAUL RICOEUR, FREUDIANISM, AND AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS’ (1985) (9)
James's “Transfigured Nature”: Where Art and Religion Converge (1997) (9)
Parabolic Events in Augustine's Autobiography (1983) (9)
The Oedipus Complex and the Role of Religion in the Neurosis of Father Hunger (2000) (9)
Curing Anxious Adolescents Through Fatherlike Performance (2001) (9)
The Verbal Portrait: Erik H. Erikson’s Contribution to Psychoanalytic Discourse (2011) (9)
Alzheimer's Disease and the Loss of Self (2008) (9)
Consciousness, the Vegetative State, and the Intrinsic Value of Life (2009) (9)
Orestes Brownson: The Psychology of Religious Affiliation (1968) (9)
The religious personality (1970) (9)
Trees and Us: Poetic Metaphors and Pastoral Images (2011) (9)
Mother, Melancholia, and Dreams in Erik H. Erikson’s Insight and Responsibility (2008) (9)
Sundén's Role-Taking Theory: The Case of John Henry Newman and His Mentors@@@Sunden's Role-Taking Theory: The Case of John Henry Newman and His Mentors (1982) (8)
John Nash: Three Phases in the Career of a Beautiful Mind (2005) (8)
The Mother Relationship and Artistic Inhibition in the Lives of Leonardo da Vinci and Erik H. Erikson (2008) (8)
Erikson’s Schedule of Human Strengths and the Church’s Self-Images (2009) (8)
The Homosexual Tendencies of King James: Should this Matter to Bible Readers Today? (2007) (8)
You've Got To Be Kidding!: How Jokes Can Help You Think (2009) (8)
Sex in the Bible: A New Consideration (2006) (8)
Psychology of religion : a guide to information sources (1977) (8)
Mother, Melancholia, and Play in Erik H. Erikson’s Childhood and Society (2007) (8)
Gossip, Humor, and the Art of Becoming an Intimate of Jesus (2012) (8)
Mother, Melancholia, and Art in Erik H. Erikson’s Toys and Reasons (2007) (8)
Deliverance to the Captives: Karl Barth’s Prison Sermons (2015) (7)
Sunden's Role Theory -- An Impetus to Contemporary Psychology of Religion (1996) (7)
Coming to Terms with Our Regrets (2009) (7)
Method, Models, and Scholarly Types: Reflections on Thesis and Dissertation Writing in Pastoral Theology (2014) (7)
Whistler’s Mother: Devotional Center of Male Melancholic Religion (2008) (7)
The Deadly Sins and Saving Virtues: How they are viewed by clergy (1992) (7)
Jesus the village psychiatrist: A summary (2010) (7)
A Biographical Footnote to Newman‘s “Lead, Kindly Light” (1972) (7)
Freud’s Wolf Man: A Case of Successful Religious Sublimation (2011) (6)
The Making of the Reliably Religious Boy (2006) (6)
The Laborers in the Vineyard: Putting Humor to Work (2012) (6)
Erik H. Erikson, Norman Rockwell, and the Therapeutic Functions of a Questionable Painting (2008) (6)
John W. Hinckley, Jr.: A Case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (2013) (6)
The Mortification of the Self: Erving Goffman’s Analysis of the Mental Hospital (2016) (6)
Pastoral Images: The Good Samaritan and the Unjust Judge (2009) (6)
The Deadly Sins and Saving Virtues: How They Are Viewed Today by Laity (2000) (6)
Beyond Schweitzer and the psychiatrists: Jesus as fictive personality (2003) (6)
Erikson’s Case of the Theological Student (2009) (6)
Was William James a Patient at McLean Hospital for the Mentally Ill? (2008) (6)
Fired Up and Loaded for Bear (2010) (5)
The Psychological Benefits of Bad Poetry (2010) (5)
Methuselah and Company: A Case of Male Envy of Female Longevity (2009) (5)
The Resourceful Self: And a Little Child Shall Lead Them (2014) (5)
Mental Illness Publications in Major Pastoral Care Journals from 1950 to 2003 (2007) (5)
Levinson's Theory of the Life Structure: The Case for Its Universality (2000) (5)
The pursuit of unhappiness in American congregational life (1990) (5)
Desire Faileth Not (2006) (5)
The Embarrassing Adam’s Apple, Compromised Masculinity, and Hope: The Case of Norman Rockwell (2013) (5)
Erik H. Erikson’s Psychoanalytic Portrait of Martin Luther (2015) (5)
Shame and the Solitary Way (2007) (5)
RESEARCH MODELS AND PEDAGOGICAL PARADIGMS IN PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION (1980) (5)
The Melancholy Boy and the Religion of Humor: The Case of S. S. Adams (2009) (5)
The Placebo Effect and the Molecules of Hope (2010) (5)
The Path of Least Resistance (2012) (5)
The Deadly Sins: How They Are Viewed and Experienced Today (2011) (5)
The “Reversal of Generations” Phenomenon as Illustrated by the Lives of John Henry Newman and Abraham Lincoln (2006) (5)
Praying the Rosary (1988) (5)
The Spirituality of Sex (2009) (5)
Prejudice, Prodigality, and the Precariousness of Life (2003) (4)
Human Chances for Happiness: A Review of Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents (2013) (4)
Augustine’s Confessions: Self-reproach and the Melancholy Self (2007) (4)
Method, Models, and Scholarly Types: Reflections on Thesis and Dissertation Writing in Pastoral Theology (2014) (4)
Teenage Girls in Rural New York: A Case of Conversion Disorder (2015) (4)
An Allportian Analysis of Augustine (1994) (4)
The Minister and Mental Illness (2014) (4)
The Parable of the Squirrel: Alleviating the Anxiety of Agoraphobia (2012) (4)
From Mystical Moment to Therapeutic Method: Connections Between Psychology of Religion and Pastoral Counseling (1999) (4)
Living Stories of Resilience, Resistance, and Resourcefulness (2015) (4)
James E. Dittes: A Professional Portrait (2003) (3)
The discerning heart: the Psalms as pastoral resource in ministry to potential organ recipients and their families. (1993) (3)
Forty Years with Moses (2009) (3)
An Overdue Reunion (2011) (3)
Aging Horses and Wounded Healers (2008) (3)
Releasing Life’s Potential: A Pastoral Theology of Work (2016) (3)
Jesus as Power Tactician (2004) (3)
Norman Vincent Peale, Smiley Blanton and the Hidden Energies of the Mind (2009) (3)
Striking Out: The Case of Mighty Casey (2016) (3)
A Sympathetic World. William James’ Significance for Practical Theology (2000) (3)
The Beatitudes and Erikson's life cycle theory (1985) (3)
"Your Nose Has Again Smelled Right": Reflections on the Disputed Origin of Freud's Concept of Sublimation (2010) (3)
Pastoral care and psychology of religion: Toward a new alliance (1978) (3)
Lincoln’s Martyrdom A Study of Exemplary Mythic Patterns (1976) (3)
Hartmann's relationship to Freud: a reappraisal. (1970) (3)
The Pastor as Bearer of Hope (1994) (2)
Response to Alter, Childs, and Hutch (2002) (2)
Pastoral Counseling Across Cultures by David W. Augsburger. Philadelphia, Westminster, 1986. 405 Pp. $21.95 (1988) (2)
Religion and Mental Health (book) (1995) (2)
A Summary of Jesus (2002) (2)
Happy Spirits and Grumpy Souls: Mood Changes in Older Adulthood (2015) (2)
Speaking of Silence (2011) (2)
Desire and Delight: A New Reading of Augustine's Confessions: By Margaret R. Miles New York, Crossroad Publishing Company, 1992. 144 pp. $15.95 (1994) (2)
On Leaving Well Enough Alone (2005) (2)
Humor and the Rebellious Spirit of the Early Adolescent Boy (2007) (2)
Biblical models in pastoral counseling (1980) (2)
Melancholia, Utopia, and the Psychoanalysis of Dreams (2007) (2)
Response to Ellens, Miller, and Anderson (2002) (2)
Response to Reviewers of At Home in the World (2015) (2)
At Home in the World (2013) (2)
At Home in the World (2013) (2)
Notice of Death: James E. Dittes (1926–2009) (2010) (2)
Imagining Hope: William F. Lynch’s Psychology of Hope (2016) (2)
Achieving Our Goals in Life (2012) (2)
Mental illness, religion, and the rational mind: The case of Clifford W. Beers (2009) (1)
The Whole and the Divided Self: The Bible and Theological Anthropology. Edited by John McCarthy New York, Crossroad, 1997. 251 pp. $29.96 (1998) (1)
New Directions on Old Connections: Body/Soul, Flesh/Spirit, Self/Other (2013) (1)
Some Problems with Difficulties (2005) (1)
Preface: Special Issue on Emotion, Mood, and Temperament (2014) (1)
Identity with Jesus Christ: The Case of Leon Gabor (2010) (1)
The Symmetry of Life: The Sermonic Insights of Phillips Brooks (2016) (1)
Margaret R. Miles’ Augustine and the Fundamentalist’s Daughter: An Eriksonian Perspective (2013) (1)
The Replacement Child: Solomonic Justice and the Sublimation of Sibling Envy (2012) (1)
Newman’s Illness in Sicily: The Reformer as Biographer (1976) (1)
PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION (1984) (1)
Resistance in the Local Church: A Psychoanalytic Perspective (2015) (1)
Riddles and Jokes: Growing Children's Use of Humor in Response to Societal Demands for Rational Thinking (2014) (1)
Situating System and Giving Self Its Due: A Story-Based Counseling Model (2000) (1)
Newman's truth : Irony and metaphors of the self in the Apologia (1997) (1)
Praying in our own behalf. Toward the revitalization of petitionary prayer. (1993) (1)
Teenage Girls in Rural New York: A Case of Conversion Disorder (2013) (1)
Psychohistory in religious studies. (1974) (1)
Human Chances for Happiness: A Review of Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents (2012) (0)
Book Reviews (2015) (0)
Book Review (2011) (0)
Why Thinking Critically is Important (2009) (0)
Response to Han Van Den Blink's Review (1994) (0)
Erikson's life cycle theory and the local church (1979) (0)
Response to Mr. Gilmore (1970) (0)
The Parable of the Squirrel: Alleviating the Anxiety of Agoraphobia (2012) (0)
New Directions on Old Connections: Body/Soul, Flesh/Spirit, Self/Other (2013) (0)
David Augsburger, Dissident Discipleship: A Spirituality of Self-Surrender, Love of God, and Love of Neighbour (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2006), pp. 256. $19.99. (2010) (0)
Response to Byrnes and Spilka (1994) (0)
A History of Pastoral Care in America: From Salvation to Self-Realization by E. Brooks Holifield Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1983. 416 pp. $16.95 (1985) (0)
Fallacies of Evidence (2009) (0)
Resistance in the Local Church: A Psychoanalytic Perspective (2015) (0)
The Minister and Mental Illness (2012) (0)
Living Stories of Resilience, Resistance, and Resourcefulness (2015) (0)
Fallacies of Relevance (2009) (0)
Living in Limbo (2010) (0)
The Religious Life (2015) (0)
SOCIAL-SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION (1983) (0)
Striking Out: The Case of Mighty Casey (2015) (0)
Deliverance to the Captives: Karl Barth’s Prison Sermons (2014) (0)
Erik H. Erikson’s Psychoanalytic Portrait of Martin Luther (2013) (0)
Erikson's Space": Where Art and Religion Converge (1996) (0)
The Symmetry of Life: The Sermonic Insights of Phillips Brooks (2016) (0)
The Laborers in the Vineyard: Putting Humor to Work (2012) (0)
Releasing Life’s Potential: A Pastoral Theology of Work (2015) (0)
On schedule—But timely? (1976) (0)
Youthful Visitors and Hospitable Hosts: Exercises in Misunderstanding (2003) (0)
The Pick of the Litter. (1986) (0)
Critical Thinking and Objective Truth (2009) (0)
Augustine's Confessions: The story of a divided self and the process of its unification (2007) (0)
Book Review:A Psychology of Ultimate Concern: Erik H. Erikson's Contribution to the Psychology of Religion Hetty Zock (1992) (0)
Fallacies of Assumption (2009) (0)
A Christmas Poem (2003) (0)
Comments from our readers (1981) (0)
4. “A Little Sun in His Own Heart”: The Melancholic Vision in Answer to Job (2017) (0)
Stephen Pattison, Saving Face: Defacement, Shame, Theology (Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 210. £17.99. (2016) (0)
Response to Reviewers of At Home in the World (2015) (0)
Imagining Hope: William F. Lynch’s Psychology of Hope (2015) (0)
Index of Proper Names (1976) (0)
İSTEK DUASI (PETITIONARY PRAYER) PSİKOLOJİSİ (2005) (0)
Language and Love: Introducing Augustine's Religious Thought through the Confessions Story: By William Mallard University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. 252 pp. $35.00, $16.95 (pb) (1996) (0)
Bible Translation and Models of Masculinity (2010) (0)
Book Review:The New Shape of Pastoral Theology: Essays in Honor of Seward Hiltner William B. Oglesby, Jr. (1971) (0)
Encounter with Erikson@@@Psychohistory and Religion: The Case of Young Man Luther (1978) (0)
John W. Hinckley, Jr.: A Case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (2012) (0)
Newman Studies: Experiments in Crossbreeding (1973) (0)
Book Review and Resource: Handbook for Basic Types of Pastoral Care and Counseling (1991) (0)
Margaret R. Miles’ Augustine and the Fundamentalist’s Daughter: An Eriksonian Perspective (2012) (0)
Childhood Fears, Adult Anxieties, and the Longing for Inner Peace : Erik H. Erikson’s Psychoanalytic Psychology of Religion (2018) (0)
The Poet's Gift (1993) (0)
Practical Theology. Edited by Browning Don S.. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1983. xi + 204 pages. $8.95 (paper). (1985) (0)
Achieving Our Goals in Life (2011) (0)
Preface: Special Issue on Emotion, Mood, and Temperament (2014) (0)
Happy Spirits and Grumpy Souls: Mood Changes in Older Adulthood (2013) (0)
BOOK REVIEW AND NOTES (2003) (0)
Book reviews (1992) (0)
The Mortification of the Self: Erving Goffman’s Analysis of the Mental Hospital (2015) (0)
Erikson’s Schedule of Human Strengths and the Childhood Origins of the Resourceful Self (2011) (0)
Books and Articles by Donald Capps, 2009–2016 (2016) (0)
The Tooth Fairy: Psychological Issues Related to Baby Tooth Loss and Mythological Working Through (2013) (0)
The Embarrassing Adam’s Apple, Compromised Masculinity, and Hope: The Case of Norman Rockwell (2013) (0)
Pastoral care and the eight deadly vices (1983) (0)
Clio and the Doctors, Psycho-History, Quanto-History and History . By Jacques Barzun. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1974. xi + 173 pp. $7.95. (1975) (0)
Deviants be Damned. (1980) (0)
Preface (2012) (0)
Erik Erikson’s Verbal Portraits: Luther, Gandhi, Einstein, Jesus (2014) (0)
Book Review:Current Perspectives in the Psychology of Religion H. Newton Malony (1979) (0)
Human Development and Pastoral Care in a Postmodern Age: Donald Capps, Erik H. Erikson, and Beyond (2017) (0)
Charisma and Sacred Biography. Michael Williams (1985) (0)

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