The Big Umbrella: And Other Essays and Addresses on Biblical Counseling

About this book

The Big Umbrella is a collection of essays and addresses given by the author in the early 1970s. In it Jay Adams perhaps the central figure in the nouthetic or Biblical Counseling Movement discusses a wide variety of subjects all dealing in some way with counseling from a biblical perspective. Dr. Adams confronts and dismantles the common notion of modern psychology that all people with emotional and behavioral problems are sick and presents instead a sound argument that sin and our rebellious nature are at the core of these issues.