Commentary on the special issue: Religion in the psychology of personality

The author comments on the special issue on religion in the psychology of p ersonality. She focuses her discussion on the following topics: the histori cal tripartite theory of cognition-affection-conation; ways that family psy chology and theories of language clarify the "problem" of adherence to "fal se realities"; the multidimensionality of personality and religion and thei r cultural embeddedness as illuminated in clinical assessment by way of con textual family theory (Boszormenyi-Nagy & Krasner, 1986) and the Kantor and Lehr (1975) systems theory; the role of the investigator's personality in theory and research about personality and religion; the one-sided emphasis on the empirical tradition in the psychology of religion; and the omission of the personalist tradition.