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Minding God

Theology and the Cognitive Sciences
  • ISBN-13: 9780800634988
  • Publisher: AUGSBURG FORTRESS PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
  • By Gregory R. Peterson
  • Price: AUD $45.99
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  • Local release date: 11/01/2003
  • Format: Paperback (203.00mm X 152.00mm) 224 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Christian theology [HRCM]
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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 psychologythat 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.
Gregory R. Peterson is Associate Professor of Religion at Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania.
Preface Part One: God, mind, and cognitive science What Does Silicon Valley Have to Do with Jerusalem? How the Mind Works: A Cognitive Science Perspective Fitting Square Pegs into Round Holes: The Problem of Consciousness Part Two: The God of mind Do Split Brains Listen to Prozac? Mysterium Tremendum? Alone in the Universe? Whence Original Sin? Part Three: The Mind of God The Mind of God The Nature and Destiny of Minds
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