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9780521734219

The Physical Nature of Christian Life: Neuroscience, Psychology, and the Church

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    9780521734219

  • ISBN10:

    0521734215

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-06-11
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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 brain function alone, rather than an embodied soul, provides 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Human Nature as Physical
Christian history and the two-part person
Embodiment of soulishness
The Formation of Persons
How bodies become persons
How relationships shape us
How we are changed and transformed
Embodied Christian Life and the Church
Why bodies need churches
Church bodies
The embodied church
Concluding thoughts: the church after dualism
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