Game Free

by Thomas Oden

  • Year 1974
  • Type Book
  • Genre practical theology
  • Tradition Methodist
  • Original language English

For For readers interested in Christian thought's 1970s dialogue with transactional analysis; not a current counselling guide.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
2 of 5 worth a look
For the researcher
1 of 5 marginal
Difficulty
2 of 5 moderate

A 1970s book on intimacy that pairs theology with transactional analysis. Readable but very much of its decade.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 1 of 5
  • Experiential 3 of 5
  • Sociological 3 of 5
  • Historical 0 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Published by Harper & Row in 1974, Game Free opens with the question "How can I become close to someone without risking something essential to myself?" The publisher describes the book as a "theology of interpersonal communion" and as a dialogue between Christian theology and transactional analysis, the school of popular psychology made famous by I'm OK, You're OK. It is one of several books from the 1970s in which Oden used the therapies of the day as a partner for theology, before his turn to the classical Christian writers.

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Catalog IDW.E5HPK0.4

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