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A Study of Communicative Rationality in Christian Counseling revealed through Job in the perspective of Habermas

This article is to present the key requirements for the successful Christian counseling by considering Job in the perspective of Habermas’s theory of communicative action. A psychic counseling, whether directive or non–directive, has concentrated it’s effort on solving client’s problems. In this respect, a psychic counselor has generally pursued an instrumental rationality for solving a client’s problem and has selected and developed the various techniques of counseling in the view of instrumental rationality. But, in Christian counseling, a counselor is not a trouble–solving broker to solve client’s problems, but an assister to assist his client to get near to God and to listen to His words. Thus, a counselor must adhere to communicative rationality, as mentioned by Habermas, in the process of counseling for his successful assistance. In a word, Christian counseling is to lead a client to truth, and make the Word of God, “the truth will set you free”(John 8:32), come true.