About Daniel

Daniel Helminiak is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of West Georgia where he teaches Psychology of Spirituality on the graduate level and Human Sexuality, Statistics for the Social Sciences, and Foundations of Neuroscience on the undergraduate level. He is also a psychotherapist, theologian, and author. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology from The University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Andover Newton Theological School and Boston College, where he was teaching assistant to Prof. Bernard Lonergan, whom Newsweek magazine (April 29, 1970) styled as the Thomas Aquinas of the twentieth century. He is licensed as a Professional Counselor in the State of Georgia and is certified as a Fellow of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. His book, What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality (Alamo Square Press, 1994, 2000), is an international best-seller. His two-volume study about psychology and spirituality comprises The Human Core of Spir-ituality: Mind as Psyche and Spirit (State Uni-versity of New York Press, 1996) and Religion and the Human Sciences: An Approach via Spirituality (1998). Sex and the Sacred (Haworth Press, 2006), Meditation without Myth (Crossroad Publishing Co., 2005), The Transcended Christian: Spiritual Lessons for the Twenty-First Century (Alyson Books, 2007), and Spirituality for Our Global Community: From Traditional Religion to a World at Peace (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) apply this analysis to particular topics in popularized discussions.

As a psychotherapist, social scientist, and theologian, he is concerned to integrate religion and psychology and thus to suggest what whole-some human living means in a pluralistic and secularized world. Said otherwise, his specialization is spirituality. His areas of special interest are post-childhood development and human sexuality.

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he has ministered as a Roman Catholic priest -- including chaplaincy to Dignity (the national organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered Catholics and their friends) in Boston, San Antonio, and Austin -- and has been Assistant Professor for Systematic Theology and Spirituality at Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio.

His other books are The Same Jesus: A Contemporary Christology (Loyola University Press, 1986) and Spiritual Development: An Interdisciplinary Study (Loyola University Press, 1987). He has also published in Anglican Theological Review, Child & Family Behavior Therapy, Christopher Street, Counseling & Values, culturefront, Dignity/USA Journal, Ecumenical Trends, Emmanuel, The Heythrop Journal, Human Development, The Humanistic Psychologist, The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, Journal of Individual Psychology, Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, The Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, The Journal of Pastoral Care, The Journal of Psychology and Theology, The Journal of Religion and Health, Marriage and Family, National Catholic Reporter, New Blackfriars, NOVA-PSI Newsletter, Open Hands, Pastoral Psychology, Religion Teacher's Journal, Review for Religious, Soundings, Southern Voice, Spirituality Today, Spiritual Life, This Week in Texas, Visionary, Washington Blade, White Crane Journal, Worship, and Zygon.

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