David Duffie
David Duffie, M.D., holds specialties in internal medicine and psychiatry, and an M.A. in religion. He has also written the book Psychology and the Christian Religion. Presently he is a staff member of a continuing community care (mental health) program for Riverside County, California.
Articles by David Duffie
Modernism in Sheep's Clothing-2
October 1947
IV. The Psychological Approach to Religion
We turn next to a consideration of one of the most prominent religious trends in America today, a movement which has enjoyed great popularity in university circles, in the voluminous religious…
Modernism in Sheep's Clothing
September 1947
We have occasionally witnessed the distressing phenomenon of an Adventist congregation in an Adventist church listening to an Adventist preacher deliver a sermon that is strictly modernist in approach, tone, and…
Ministry to the Depressed (Part 3)
February 1974
IN PREVIOUS articles we have briefly viewed the physical and psychological aspects of depression. Now let us concentrate upon its spiritual dimensions. From what we have already presented it would be easy to deduce, as indeed many who have…
Ministry to the Depressed (Part 2)
January 1974
DEPRESSION is a malady that pervades the entire being of its victims. It operates on three important levels, the physical, the psychological, and the spiritual.
Last month we looked chiefly at the physical. We saw that certain biochemical…
Ministry to the Depressed (Part 1)
December 1973
PROBABLY the most common serious mental dis order that clergymen are regularly called upon to help their parishioners cope with is the problem of depression. It has been estimated that it affects, in serious degree, at least one person in…
Pastoring the mentally ill
May 1989
Even devout Christians are not immune to serious mental illness. When such illness surfaces, whether to refer and to whom to refer can pose real problems to the pastor, who must worry about how that person can get help without suffering spiritual…