Minding God: Theology and the Cognitive Sciences (Theology and the Sciences) - Softcover

Peterson, George R.

 
9780800634988: Minding God: Theology and the Cognitive Sciences (Theology and the Sciences)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0800634985 ISBN 13: 9780800634988
Verlag: Augsburg Fortress, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Does it make sense to speak of the "mind of God"? Are humans unique? Do we have souls? Our growing explorations of the cognitive sciences pose significant challenges to and opportunities for theological reflection. Gregory Peterson introduces these sciences: neuroscience, artificial intelligence, animal cognition, linguistics, and psychology-that specifically contribute to the new picture and their philosophical underpinnings. He shows its implications for rethinking longstanding Western assumptions about the unity of the self, the nature of consciousness, free will, inherited sin, and religious experience. Such findings also illumine our understanding of God's own mind, the God-world relationship, new notions of divine design, and the implications of a universe of evolving minds. Peterson is gifted at explaining scientific concepts and drawing their implications for religious belief and theology. His work demonstrates how new work in cognitive sciences upends and reconfigures many popular assumptions about human uniqueness, mind-body relationship, and how we speak of divine and human intelligence.

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Gregory R. Peterson is Associate Professor of Religion at Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania.

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Verlag
Augsburg Fortress
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0800634985
ISBN 13 
9780800634988
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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