caa a22 4500 38639394X CHVBK 20180307112130.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0360966900040494 doi S0360966900040494 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0360966900040494 Smith Roy Herndon Steinhoff Phillips Graduate Seminary The Denial of Mystery: Object Relations Theory and Religion [Elektronische Daten] [Roy Herndon Steinhoff Smith] A number of religious thinkers have uncritically made use of psychoanalytic object relations theory. I argue that this uncritical appropriation is dangerous to religious thought because object relations theorists tend, implicitly, if not explicitly, to deny the reality of the object of religious faith or Mystery. I analyze the defenses against Mystery in object relations theory in order to uncover what is denied by them. This critical analysis allows object relations theory to be reappropriated by religious thinkers as a valuable source of insights into the ways Mystery manifests itself in human life. Copyright © The College Theology Society 1989 Horizons Cambridge University Press 16/2(1989), 243-265 0360-9669 16:2<243 1989 16 HOR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0360966900040494 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0360966900040494 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Smith Roy Herndon Steinhoff Phillips Graduate Seminary NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Horizons Cambridge University Press 16/2(1989), 243-265 0360-9669 16:2<243 1989 16 HOR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge