The new ontopsychology

Abstract

It is interest to analyses the "New Ontopsicology" that has arisen from Theology. It is an illustration of the manner in wich the standpoints of religious thinking about a concrete human activity have changed, without modifiying the essential elements of the solutions traditionally given to matters of the soul and of its relations to divinity.

During the last years a series of theological points of review have been inserted into Psychology, among which Ontopsychology is found. It constitutes an attemp of Theology to again a valid position amond the "new psychologies". This sole pretension deserves a study of some of the points of view, of some of the relevant elements of Theology, as contributions to Psychology. Nothing is of greater interest to Theology than its search for new realms in which to exercise its influence on the fifferent aspects of human activity.

Psychology has come to be one of the last scientific disciplines to achieve methodological "maturity". this has permitted it to become liberated from refelxive thinker and to open it up to the wide scope search for new knowledge. This delay is refelcted in the observation of Bernal (1961), who stressed that the greatest difficulty of science is not to obtain knowledge, but to defcat the prejudices that hamper its development.