ABSTRACT
The vast amount that has been written about religion and psychology in the past and the differing ways in which the subject has been explored might suggest that there is little need for anyone, let alone one who is essentially a practitioner rather than a professional academic, to write more. The author's only justification for offering a further contribution to this debate is that the dearth may suggest the need for a significantly different emphasis; one that can make a meaningful contribution. The distinctive emphasis in this chapter is the methodology used, and the way in which this methodology shapes the subject matter. In the dialectic between religion and psychology, the author suggests that alongside both the traditional discipline of the psychology of religion, and the psychological interpretation of biblical material or characters, there is a closely related but distinct area which focuses on the complementarity between the two.
