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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Dealing with manipulative people: Disturbed character |author=George K. Simon |url=http://www.manipulative-people.com/tag/disturbed-character/ |accessdate=December 8, 2013}}</ref> According to Keith Ward, faith as the practical commitment to a relationship with [[God]] has the capacity to progressively transform human life, liberating it from hatred, greed and ignorance, and enabling it to become a more effective mediator of transcendent beauty, joy, compassion and benevolence.<ref>{{cite book |title=Why There Almost Certainly Is a God |author=Keith Ward |publisher=A Lion Book |place=Oxford|year=2008 |pages=132 |isbn=978-0745953304 |url=http://books.google.no/books?id=nhyT_ScQns0C}}</ref>  
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Dealing with manipulative people: Disturbed character |author=George K. Simon |url=http://www.manipulative-people.com/tag/disturbed-character/ |accessdate=December 8, 2013}}</ref> According to Keith Ward, faith as the practical commitment to a relationship with [[God]] has the capacity to progressively transform human life, liberating it from hatred, greed and ignorance, and enabling it to become a more effective mediator of transcendent beauty, joy, compassion and benevolence.<ref>{{cite book |title=Why There Almost Certainly Is a God |author=Keith Ward |publisher=A Lion Book |place=Oxford|year=2008 |pages=132 |isbn=978-0745953304 |url=http://books.google.no/books?id=nhyT_ScQns0C}}</ref> Peter Beyerhaus maintains that distorted ways of perceiving, thinking and acting have to do with men living in a state of estrangement from [[God]] and as such might be the result of what [[Bible]] portrays as the state of [[demonic possession]] which characterizes the [[The Fall|fall]]en man and his world. The role of [[Christian]] [[missionary]] is then envisioned as the task of helping out people to break antagonizing demonic boundage and take their lifes into God's possession.<ref name="Christopaganism">{{cite book
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|title=Christopaganism or Indigenous Christianity?
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|author=Peter Beyerhaus
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|editors=Tetsunao Yamamori, Charles R. Taber
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|publisher=William-Carey Library
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|location=South Pasadena, California
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|year=1975
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|chapter=6:Possesio and Syncretism in Biblical Perspective
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|pages=135
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|isbn=0-87808-423-1
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|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=QjYQAQAAIAAJ
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==Brief summary of problematic patterns of thinking of disturbed characters<ref name="Simon"/>==
 
==Brief summary of problematic patterns of thinking of disturbed characters<ref name="Simon"/>==
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