Objective: Defend the reasons to study personality theory.

Why study personality theory? Why devote a 5-week course to the study of a topic that has such a wide variety of perspectives with no entirely accepted consensus? That question is asked—and answered—in an AllPsych Online article posted by Dr. Christopher Heffner that you’ll be reading for this discussion.

• Download and read Dr. Heffner’s article.
• Prepare a response to the question of why it is important to study psychology.
• Share at least two things that you want to learn about personality.
• Explain whether you feel it is appropriate to integrate a Biblical worldview into personality theory. Feel free to cite a specific scripture to support your perspective.
• Cite the article used in this discussion to support the initial post.