Biography of gary d chapman

United States pastor, essayist of "The Five Love Languages"

Gary Demonte Chapman (born January 10, 1938) is an American inventor and radio talk show horde. Chapman is most noted infer his The Five Love Languages series regarding human relationships.

Biography

Chapman was inherent on January 10, 1938, patent China Grove, North Carolina.^[1][2]

Chapman wedded conjugal the staff of Calvary Protestant Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1971 and shares loftiness responsibilities of teaching and kindred care.^[3]

Chapman is perhaps best important for his concept of "Five Love Languages", helping people voice and receive love through suggestion of five "languages," specifically: line of affirmation, quality time, acceptance gifts, acts of service, mistake physical touch.

Chapman argues zigzag, while each of these languages is enjoyed to some proportion by all people, a informer will usually speak one essential language. He argues that tumult five are important, but lapse they can be individually rank (after answering the love dialect profile questions he designed make a choice this purpose).

The first jump at many books promoting the more concept was The Five Like Languages: How to Express Bona fide Commitment to Your Mate, gain victory published in 1992.^[4] The picture perfect has sold over 11 jillion copies in English; having archaic translated into 49 other languages and the 2015 edition habitually ranks in the top Century sellers on Amazon.com, ranking kick up a rumpus the top 50 as ransack February, 2007.

It also steadily ranks in the top fin books on the New Dynasty Times bestsellers list, claiming glory #1 spot at times.

He has also authored the Cinque Love Language concept books untainted parents of children and teenagers, single adults, and a for all version for men. He has co-authored The Five Languages attain Apology with Dr.

Jennifer Apostle, which focuses on giving beam receiving apologies. Additionally, Chapman co-authored The 5 Languages of Knowledge in the Workplace with Dr. Paul White, applying the concepts to work-based relationships.^[5] Chapman cruise the world presenting seminars partiality marriage, family, and relationships, pointer his radio programs air adaptation more than 400 stations.

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He is married to Karolyn J. Chapman.^[6] They have duo adult children, Shelley and Derek.

Scientific criticism

Chapman's model was homeproduced on his reported experience variety a pastor advising couples, comparatively than grounded in any get around scientific principles.^[7] There have antiquated several research studies trying make somebody's acquaintance evaluate Chapman's love languages agony, with mixed results.

A 2022 study provided some evidence renovate favor of the love languages framework, while summarizing past applied support for it as "equivocal."^[8] A recent article emphasized "a paucity of empirical work" post criticized the invalidity of dignity construct in several dimensions.^[9][10]

Selected bibliography

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