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Theology, Evolution and the Mind (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Theology, Evolution and the Mind (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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In pre-scientific thought mind itself, and its religious
perceptions particularly, were considered gifts from God, injected
into a previously created world of matter. By contrast, all the
contributors to this book accept an evolutionary account of life,
mind and its religious dispositions. However they hold more
divergent views on the relation of mind to body and brain, on the
validity of those religious dispositions, and on how far even
Christ, and his predicted Second Coming, may be seen as aspectc of
the evolutionary process. The seventeen contributions are rewritten
and extended versions of papers first delivered at the annual
conference of the UK's Science and Religion Forum, held at
Canterbury Christ Church College in Sept 2007. Though most speakers
were British, representatives from The Netherlands, Jordan,
Zimbabwe and USA also contributed. Invited individual chapters
consider the general pattern of evolutionary thought, arguing that
it can make a major contribution to the maturation of theology;
archeological evidence for the emergence of religion, and the
proposal that it was an inevitable phase in human evolution; the
contribution of religious concepts to the development of our
species, and the question whether that provides any ground for
accepting them as true; the unresolved debate whether mind is a
separate entity from brain, or a consequence of its activity; and
the melding of paleo-anthropology with theology to provide an
integrated account of humanity and its culmination in Christ. Each
of these papers is the subject of an individual expert response,
and they are all drawn together in an overview essay which
concludes the first part of the book. The second, shorter part
contains a selection from the papers contributed by registrants for
the meeting. Their topics are whether mathematics consists of
truths discovered, or thought-forms developed, by human minds;
ecological awareness as an evolutionary development; the
neurobiology of freewill and sin; an evolutionary perspective on
holistic medicine; and the impressive fruitfulness of juxtaposing
neurophysiological and biblical concepts of the human body-mind.
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