Growing up within a Roman Catholic family, the personal religious
background that I encountered featured the opposition of any integration
between scientific knowledge and sacred knowledge. Thus, to suggest
that psychology and theology could be integrated was to insult the core
beliefs of my family. In other words, the beliefs were centered around "the
church often portrayed as antiscientific, stuck in its narrow-minded
ecclesiastical view of reality, in which any evidence that appears to be at
odds with the prevailing view of Scripture is simply dismissed" (Entwistle,
2015, p.23). Therefore, counseling and psychology were more
anthropocentric than theocentric; God was not the center or amid any
issue; instead, it was a personal conflict that God was absent.
As a first-generation Christian, those beliefs have been altered due to
completely living with a God-centered faith. Rather than a here and now
approach, the perspective deals with eternal well-being for God's purpose
