@misc{Forsyth, author = {Forsyth, J.}, title = {Biblical Faith and Erich Fromm's Theory of Personality, Master thesis, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada 1968, 215 pp.}, language = {en} } @article{ForsythBeniskos, author = {Forsyth, J. and Beniskos, J. M.}, title = {Biblical Faith and Erich Fromm's Theory of Personality}, series = {Revue de l'Universit{\`e} d'Ottawa, Ottawa, Vol. 40 (1970), pp. 69-91.}, journal = {Revue de l'Universit{\`e} d'Ottawa, Ottawa, Vol. 40 (1970), pp. 69-91.}, abstract = {FROMM complains that Christian faith often falls into the cateory of >authoritarian< faith and thus gives a non-productive orientation so personality by alienating man from himself and his own productive powers through abject submission to an authoritarian God. It takes man away from the possibility of self-realization. Actually faith does not alienate man from his productive powers; it is an affirmation of one's unique existence and a decision to use one's freedom to give meaning and direction to one's life through the commitment of faith. On the other hand man is not completely self-sufficient. Some of the qualities which he identifies as elements of authentic human existence are not the result of man's unaided effort but are a gift from outside himself.}, language = {en} } @article{Forsyth, author = {Forsyth, J.}, title = {Tragedy and Hope: Psychoanalytic Religious Perspectives}, series = {Dialog, Minneapolis, Vol. 16 (No. 3, 1977), pp. 191-197.}, journal = {Dialog, Minneapolis, Vol. 16 (No. 3, 1977), pp. 191-197.}, abstract = {An analysis of the tragic dimension of life, such as Freud's, is a precondition of any religious message of hope. In his view, human life is characterized by the dualism of the life instinct (Eros) versus the death instinct, repression, and discontent. Interpreters (FROMM, Marcuse, Brown) try to find a >way out< of Freudian pessimism to offer man hope. Christianity, however, does not fundamentally reuse his theory. Rather it appeals to a transcendent source of hope which is realized historically, paradoxically, and redemptively - a process consistent with Freudian theory. Death is a precondition of life, as tragedy is of hope. Part of a symposium on God and the self.}, language = {en} }