This study endeavors into the overlapping areas of psychological trauma and systematic theology by investigating the dynamic interplay between the psychology of holding maximalist theological beliefs and recovery from abuse trauma. In particular, it examines the effect that Calvinist belief can have upon the traumatized Christian who negatively internalizes its superlative doctrines of divine control and human moral corruption. The project undertakes to understand these intersecting realities by investigating a triptych of inquiries: From a theological perspective, can a Christian lose his faith because of a traumatic experience? Moreover, what are the consequences of such a loss? And, how could Reformed theology exacerbate this religious detachment? This study conscripts an interdisciplinary approach which seeks always to establish a working middle term between the disciplines of psychology and theology. In addressing Reformed theology, the middle term is the existential problem of evil (Part 1); when the cognitive structure of religious belief, it is the imagination (Part 2); when the fortitude of both God and man in the partnership of faithfulness, it is pistic resilience (Part 3); when the practical recovery of faith after trauma, it is autonomy (Part 4). Ultimately, the research suggests that there are experiential harmonies between the belief in Reformed theology and the experience of trauma, which are neither existentially necessary nor therapeutically negligible--rather, they are conceptually likely based on both philosophical analysis and psychological research. Moreover, the suggested middle terms can serve as process tools for the traumatized Christian to mitigate against the exacerbation of traumatic symptomatology--particularly as it manifests in religious detachment--which are here designed and designated to rehabilitate the imagination through a recovery of autonomy.