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Enhancing Christian Life – How Extended Cognition Augments Religious Community (Paperback)
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Enhancing Christian Life – How Extended Cognition Augments Religious Community (Paperback)
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2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist - Science and
Technology No one is really Christian on their own. But often the
religious life is seen as individual, private, and
internal—resulting in a truncated, consumeristic faith. And what
if that kind of individualistic Christianity is built on a
fundamental misunderstanding of human nature? According to
psychologists Brad Strawn and Warren Brown, it's time to rethink
the Christian life in light of current research on the human mind,
particularly with a deeper understanding of the process called
"extended cognition." Using insights from neuroscience, psychology,
and philosophy, they argue in Enhancing Christian Life that persons
must be understood as not only embodied and embedded within
particular contexts, but also extended beyond the body to encompass
aspects of the physical and social world. Embracing a vision of the
Christian life as extended into interactions with a local network
of believers, they help us discover a fuller, more effective way to
be Christian. After exploring the psychological dynamics of
extended cognition, including how the mind is "supersized" by the
incorporation of physical tools and social networks, Strawn and
Brown consider implications for spiritual practices, congregational
life, and religious language and traditions, which they describe as
mental "wikis." The formation of robust Christian life, they show,
is a process that takes place within a larger mesh of embodiment
and mind—broader, deeper, and richer than we could ever be on our
own.
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