. xvii + 124 pages. A brief introduction to what the biblical counseling movement is and how it has changed over the years. Introducing us to the formative work of Jay Adams, the author outlines several themes of biblical counseling that became foundational for the movement as a whole and observes how the movement received criticisms from outside and made necessary developments from within. He points out that some of these developments have an affinity with Puritan approaches to counseling that Adams rejects but may point in a more consistently biblical direction. Chapters: 1) Some Foundational Views of Nouthetic Counseling; 2) Some Criticisms of Nouthetic Counseling; 3) Some Developments in Biblical Counseling; 4) Biblical and Puritan Counseling.