Systematic Theology for Integrative Soul Care: Applying the Full Counsel of God to Human Brokenness

By Maxwell Shimba

Systematic Theology for Integrative Soul Care

Apply the Full Counsel of God to the Deepest Wounds of the Human Soul

In a world awash in therapeutic techniques but starved of transcendent truth, many Christian counselors find themselves navigating a crisis of authority. They confess Christ on Sunday yet operate on Monday with frameworks borrowed from secular psychology-frameworks often built on foundations antithetical to a biblical worldview. This syncretism results in a soul care that is, at best, theologically anemic and, at worst, spiritually deleterious.

Systematic Theology for Integrative Soul Care is a bold and urgent response to this crisis. This is not another book of counseling techniques or quick-fix methods. It is a foundational work that builds, stone by stone, a robust theological framework for understanding and ministering to human brokenness.

Dr. Maxwell Shimba, with pastoral sensitivity and intellectual rigor, guides readers on a comprehensive journey through the core doctrines of the Christian faith, demonstrating how each is essential for effective and authentic soul care:

Part I: Prolegomena tackles the modern epistemic crisis, exposing the inescapable role of worldviews and establishing Divine Revelation-both General and Special-as the primary and authoritative data set for the soul physician.

Part II: Theology Proper lifts our gaze to the nature of God Himself, exploring His incommunicable and communicable attributes and the profound implications of the Trinity's perichoretic love as the archetype for all human wholeness.

Part III: Theological Anthropology delves into the constitution of humanity-the glorious Imago Dei, the holistic human person, and our original state-providing a true diagnosis of human dignity and its tragic marring.

Part IV: Hamartiology offers an unflinching biblical taxonomy of sin, tracing its corrosive effects through the Fourfold Alienation from God, others, self, and creation.

Part V: Christology and Soteriology culminates in the glorious antidote: the person and work of Jesus Christ. It explores the Hypostatic Union, the multifaceted atonement, and the transformative realities of justification, redemption, and reconciliation as the only hope for comprehensive restoration.

This book is a call to arms for pastors, counselors, students, and any serious Christian committed to the care of souls. It equips readers to:

Diagnose the human condition with biblical depth, not psychological reductionism.

Construct a counseling practice on the unshakable foundation of Scripture.

Critically engage with secular psychology while maintaining theological fidelity.

Offer not just coping mechanisms but the hope of the gospel, which reaches into the deepest recesses of the human psyche.

Systematic Theology for Integrative Soul Care is an essential resource for rebuilding a soul care ministry that is as deep as human need, as comprehensive as the biblical story, and as hopeful as the empty tomb.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G6GFZVY7
• ISBN13: 9798278124542
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"