{"id":12936,"date":"2026-08-26T16:58:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/?post_type=contributor&#038;p=12936"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:58:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:58:02","slug":"david-powlison","status":"publish","type":"contributor","link":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/cbimedia\/contributor\/david-powlison\/","title":{"rendered":"David Powlison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Powlison served as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccef.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ccef.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CCEF<\/a>\u2019s executive director (2014-2019), a faculty member, and senior editor of the\u00a0<em>Journal of Biblical Counseling<\/em>. He held a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and an MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary. David wrote extensively on biblical counseling and on the relationship between faith and psychology. His books\u00a0<em>Seeing with New Eyes<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Speaking Truth in Love<\/em>\u00a0probe the implications of Scripture for how to understand people and how to counsel.\u00a0<em>The Biblical Counseling Movement: History and Context<\/em>\u00a0explores the background and development of CCEF\u2019s mission. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12849,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"peopletype":[20],"class_list":["post-12936","contributor","type-contributor","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","peopletype-author"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor\/12936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/contributor"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor\/12936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12937,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor\/12936\/revisions\/12937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"peopletype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/peopletype?post=12936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}