For all the talk of dialogue between science and religion, too much work in the field is one-sided. This book corrects this balance by presenting essays that affirm the mutual enrichment of both science and theology through work that engages at their interface. The contributors celebrate the fruitful coming together of insights from the psychological sciences and theology for the enrichment of psychology and theology, as well as religious reflection and practice. A pioneer in the field of religious cognition, Fraser Watts has sought to re-envisage psychology and theology (as well as...
For all the talk of dialogue between science and religion, too much work in the field is one-sided. This book corrects this balance by presenting essa...
Many people are now interested in the relationship between religion and science, but links between Christian belief and psychology have been relatively neglected. This book opens up the dialogue between Christian theology and modern scientific psychology, approaching the dialogue in both directions. Current scientific topics like consciousness and artificial intelligence are examined from a religious perspective. Christian themes such as God's purposes and activity in the world are then examined in the light of psychology. This accessible study on psychology and Christian belief offers...
Many people are now interested in the relationship between religion and science, but links between Christian belief and psychology have been relativel...
Humans are unique in their ability to reflect on themselves. Recently a number of scholars have pointed out that human self-conceptions have a history. Ideas of human nature in the West have always been shaped by the interplay of philosophy, theology, science, and technology. The fast pace of developments in the latter two spheres (neuroscience, genetics, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering) call for fresh reflections on what it means, now, to be human, and for theological and ethical judgments on how we might shape our own destiny in the future. The leading scholars in this book...
Humans are unique in their ability to reflect on themselves. Recently a number of scholars have pointed out that human self-conceptions have a history...
In the 1990s great strides were taken in clarifying how the brain is involved in behaviors that, in the past, had seldom been studied by neuroscientists or psychologists. This book explores the progress begun during that momentous decade in understanding why we behave, think and feel the way we do, especially in those areas that interface with religion. What is happening in the brain when we have a religious experience? Is the soul a product of the mind which is, in turn, a product of the brain? If so, what are the implications for the Christian belief in an afterlife? If God created humans...
In the 1990s great strides were taken in clarifying how the brain is involved in behaviors that, in the past, had seldom been studied by neuroscientis...
This book provides a critical philosophical analysis of the claim that contemporary cognitive approaches to religion undermine theistic beliefs. Recent scientific work into the evolution and cognition of religion has been driven by and interpreted in terms of a certain kind of philosophical and methodological naturalism. The book argues that such naturalism is not necessary for the cognitive study of religion and develops an alternative philosophical and methodological framework. This alternative framework opens the cognitive study of religion to theological and philosophical considerations...
This book provides a critical philosophical analysis of the claim that contemporary cognitive approaches to religion undermine theistic beliefs. Recen...
When scientists describe their results or insights as -beautiful- are they using the term differently from when they use it of a landscape, music or another person?
Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty re-examines the way in which seeing beauty in the world plays the key role in scientific advances, and argues that the reliance on such a personal point of view is ultimately justified by belief that we are made in the -image of God-, as Christian and Jewish believers assert. It brings a fresh voice to the ongoing debate about faith and science, and suggests that...
When scientists describe their results or insights as -beautiful- are they using the term differently from when they use it of a landscape, music o...
