The physical nature of Christian life
Subtitle: neuroscience, psychology, and the church
By: Warren S. Brown, Brad D. Strawn
Contributors: Strawn, Brad D.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780521515931
Subjects: Neurosciences; Theological anthropology; Christianity; Religious Psychology; Religion; RELIGION / General; Spiritual formation; Psychology and religion
Description: "This book explores the implications of recent insights in modern neuroscience for the church's view of spiritual formation"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 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.