With "Christian logotherapy" or "Christian psychotherapy" we are leaving the realm of psychotherapy and even that of ontology and enter the dimension of theology (“From the very analogy of dimensions, however, it should become clear that these realms are by no means mutually exclusive. A higher dimension, by definition, is a more inclusive one. The lower dimension is included in the higher one; it is subsumed in it and encompassed by it. Thus biology is overarched by psychology, psychology by noology, and noology by theology” Viktor Frankl, The Unconscious God, (New York: Washington Square Press, 1985) p.13) , so it is not really logotherapy or psychotherapy any more in the original sense. As soon as we introduce a fourth dimension (read in this context my article on the pneumatic dimension) to the dimensional ontology of Frankl, we are dealing with theology instead of psychology or noology. Maximum that a psychology can do is to remain open for such spiritual dimension (to the "rising" approach to healing).



Another approach - that most of those working in a healing ministry are doing - is to begin with a theology of healing and on this foundation include a therapeutic elements (we might call it "descending" approach to therapy) . Where the two approaches can meet?



Surely in the practice they might be present and one can work out a ministry that includes both the "rising" and the "descending" approaches to healing.

See more writings in this theme at the page Spiritual Healing as Awakening