The Physical Nature of Christian Life
Neuroscience, Psychology, and the Church
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- Authors:
- Warren S. Brown, Fuller Theological Seminary
- Brad D. Strawn, Southern Nazarene University
- Date Published: September 2012
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521734219
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This book explores the implications of recent insights in modern neuroscience for the church's view of spiritual formation. Science suggests that functions of the brain and body in collaboration with social experience, rather than a disembodied soul, provide physical basis for the mental capacities, interpersonal relations, and religious experiences of human beings. The realization that human beings are wholly physical, but with unique mental, relational and spiritual capacities, challenges traditional views of Christian life as defined by the care of souls, a view that leads to inwardness and individuality. Psychology and neuroscience suggest the importance of developmental openness, attachment, imitation and stories as tools in spiritual formation. Accordingly, the idea that care of embodied persons should be fundamentally social and communal sets new priorities for encouraging spiritual growth and building congregations.
Read more- Uses the perspectives and discoveries of modern neuroscience and psychological theory to reconsider the formation and transformation of persons, as well as the life of Christian congregations
- Analyzes Christian life and the life of the church as embodied and social/communal - without a commitment to body-soul dualism
- Describes how dualist views of human nature led to the Gnosticism of modern Western Christian faith and worship
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- Date Published: September 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521734219
- length: 192 pages
- dimensions: 226 x 150 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.27kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Part I. Human Nature as Physical:
2. Christian history and the two-part person
3. Embodiment of soulishness
Part II. The Formation of Persons:
4. How bodies become persons
5. How relationships shape us
6. How we are changed and transformed
Part III. Embodied Christian Life and the Church:
7. Why bodies need churches
8. Church bodies
9. The embodied church
10. Concluding thoughts: the church after dualism.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Personality Theories
- Science and Religion
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