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Don't Let your Strengths Become Your Weaknesses
Charleston, SC
Friday, February 06, 2009
For twenty years Dr. Knight wrote a column ,"Balanced Living," for the Summerville (SC) Journal Scene. As the title suggest the book deals with keeping your life in balance, particularly not allowing your strengths to become weaknesses.
Balanced Living walks a wobbly line between textbook and self-help book. It is ideally suited for supplementary reading in counseling courses or equally at home in psychology, theology or interpersonal communication courses. It is a valuable resource for anyone who wishes to understand himself or herself better or for managers who want to understand employees better.
Dr. Knight weaves his background of growing up in a small coal mining town in Illinois, his years as an athlete, his seminary training, his years as a mental health counselor and his tenure as a Christian minister into the text to help us understand the basic premise. He poses several questions to help us examine our lives. "Do you need to tighten up or loosen up? Do you need to speak up or shut up? Do you need to hang on or let go? He relies very heavily on his extensive experience with the "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to help us understand the way we operate along a continuum and that there is no one best type.
His chapter, "Balanced Families," helps us look at how behavioral patterns in families often become characteristic of the family's behavior pattern through multiple generations.
In his chapter,"Developmental Stages, Values and Theological Reflections," Dr. Knight extends the work of Erik Erikson to accommodate today's longer life span. His chapter, "Balanced Religion," and his section on Theological Reflections rise to a high point of expression. His treatment of the biblical concept of "grace" is without a doubt the clearest and most encompassing I have read. It is clear that his concept of grace undergirds his approach to pastoral counseling, pastoral care, and the training of future counselors. His understanding of grace is inseparable from who he is and it permeates his writing.
Dr. Knight has taught at Webster University for thirty years and at Charleston Southern University. He is a licensed Marriage and Family counselor and a Fellow of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. He is the pastor of the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Charleston, South Carolina. Balanced Living, can be ordered from www.wipfandstock.com. Robert Marsden Knight. Balanced Living: Don't Let Your Strengths Become Your Weaknesses. Eugene, Oregon, Wipf & Stock. ©2009.
Balanced Living walks a wobbly line between textbook and self-help book. It is ideally suited for supplementary reading in counseling courses or equally at home in psychology, theology or interpersonal communication courses. It is a valuable resource for anyone who wishes to understand himself or herself better or for managers who want to understand employees better.
Dr. Knight weaves his background of growing up in a small coal mining town in Illinois, his years as an athlete, his seminary training, his years as a mental health counselor and his tenure as a Christian minister into the text to help us understand the basic premise. He poses several questions to help us examine our lives. "Do you need to tighten up or loosen up? Do you need to speak up or shut up? Do you need to hang on or let go? He relies very heavily on his extensive experience with the "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to help us understand the way we operate along a continuum and that there is no one best type.
His chapter, "Balanced Families," helps us look at how behavioral patterns in families often become characteristic of the family's behavior pattern through multiple generations.
In his chapter,"Developmental Stages, Values and Theological Reflections," Dr. Knight extends the work of Erik Erikson to accommodate today's longer life span. His chapter, "Balanced Religion," and his section on Theological Reflections rise to a high point of expression. His treatment of the biblical concept of "grace" is without a doubt the clearest and most encompassing I have read. It is clear that his concept of grace undergirds his approach to pastoral counseling, pastoral care, and the training of future counselors. His understanding of grace is inseparable from who he is and it permeates his writing.
Dr. Knight has taught at Webster University for thirty years and at Charleston Southern University. He is a licensed Marriage and Family counselor and a Fellow of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. He is the pastor of the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Charleston, South Carolina. Balanced Living, can be ordered from www.wipfandstock.com. Robert Marsden Knight. Balanced Living: Don't Let Your Strengths Become Your Weaknesses. Eugene, Oregon, Wipf & Stock. ©2009.
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