Background to the current predicament. A place for the Bible in Christian soul care ; The Bible in the history of Christian soul care ; The Bible and current evangelical soul-care paradigms -- Texts and contexts. Objects of disciplines and their contexts ; Properties of scripture and its relation to other texts ; Interpreting the Bible for Christian psychology and soul care ; Translating the texts of other communities for Christian soul care ; Postscript : composing a body of Christian psychology literature : a communal project -- "Let there be humans" : the semiodiscursive constitution of human beings. The ground of the created order : the Word of God ; From signs to history : a hermeneutic analysis of human life ; Orders of meaning : a multilevel analysis of human life ; Toward a complex model of human life : semiodiscursive, multilevel, hierarchical and holistic -- The communication of God's glory in Christian soul care. The trinitarian ground and goal of Christian well-being and soul care : union and communion with God ; The call to inwardness : opening up to the glory of God ; Inwardness, part 1 : self-examination ; Inwardness, part 2 : the identification and deconstruction of barriers ; Inwardness, part 3 : the constitutive internalization of signs of glory ; The call to outwardness : the manifestation of Christlikeness ; Promoting Christiformity through the therapeutic delivery of signs of glory.