Psychology has been called upon to fill the gap that abandoned spirituality left, and it can’t. That’s at best like calling in a bookkeeper to fix your problem with being unable to turn a profit.
Sometimes spirituality does work under the covers of psychology, and we get what we call the Christian psychologist. And these persons are often useful in the Lord’s ministry, but still the framework that they have to fit tends to limit their usefulness. And they have to be careful to stay out of the secular psychological stereotypes which are transcended by the grace and love of the Lord. Some manifestations of agape love can too easily be called things like “codependency” and “enabling” when they are not, they are the sincere work of the Lord with a definite plan. I had a chance to see how that system worked, and it works better than some preachers give it credit for, but now I can see how a really great gospel will transcend it.
Another danger here is the state-ifying of the trade. As goofy as it has gotten, at least it has stayed private. Once it serves the state, it will be abused, not might but will. The old Soviet Union was the warning case for this.
What could pierce through the confusion, destruction and gloom would be a resurgence of gospel power, something beyond the “churchianity” of most of the 20th century. Bluntly put we need to call on the Lord to be saved, and that from top to bottom. There’s nothing in our secularized system, absolutely nothing, that we can withhold from the Lord and expect to turn out well.
“Bluntly put we need to call on the Lord to be saved, and that from top to bottom.”
I see zero possibility for a resurgence of Christianity. The entire society has moved away from faith, religion and any sort of philosophy of any description. There is not even any critical thinking being taught in schools. The government has all but banned Christianity, but embraced “diversity” which it interprets to mean Islam. (Ironically, Islam is the least inclusive and diverse “religion” on the planet.)
A resurgence would require getting rid of government restraint and anti-religious propaganda combined with a popular resurgence in the media and entertainment worlds. Both of those despise Christianity with a passion and regularly produce powerful and influential works against it.
Even if Jesus returned tomorrow I doubt that he could get the word out. Unless he regularly turned the media and entertainment people into goats they’d make mincemeat out of him on the talk show circuit. He could bring back the dead and they’d still be critical.
IMO, the shrinks are worse off mentally than any of us.
They chose that ‘profession’ because they could interact with more of their own lunatics.