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Mecklenberger, Ralph

 
9781580238403: Our Religious Brains: What Cognitive Science Reveals About Belief, Morality, Community and Our Relationship with God
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ISBN 10: 1580238408 ISBN 13: 9781580238403
Editorial: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2015

Sinopsis

A Revolution in Human Self-Understanding Is UnderwayWhat Does It Mean for Religion and Our Belief in God?

"The brain and consciousness are themselves awe-inspiring. So learning about them no more undermines religion than learning about how symphonies and paintings are crafted takes away from our appreciation of music and art. Science alone does not provide the ultimate answers or firmly rooted values for which we yearn. But religion alone does not have all the answers either. We are blessed, as moderns, with both."
from the Introduction

This is a groundbreaking, accessible look at the implications of cognitive science for religion and theology, intended for laypeople. Avoiding neurological jargon and respectful to all faiths, it examines:

  • Current theory on how our brains construct our world in order to guide us safely through life, creating and appreciating meaning as we go.
  • What religious experience is as it plays out in our brains.
  • How modern science challenges historic ideas about free will and undermines the religious concept of the soul as a meta-physical entity separable from the body.
  • What cognitive science reveals about our need for community.
  • Why we should be loyal to one faith if, in fact, all major religious traditions deal effectively with universal human needs.

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Ralph D. Mecklenburger speaks nationally on topics related to science and religion, Judaism and Jewish-Christian dialogue. He is rabbi at Beth-El Congregation in Fort Worth, Texas, an adjunct faculty member at Brite Divinity School and has served as the Jewish co-chair of the Texas Conference of Churches' Jewish-Christian Forum.



Dr. Howard Kelfer is a neurologist and former director of neurology at Cook Children's Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. He maintains an active practice in critical care neurology and an interest in cognitive neuroscience.



Neil Gillman, rabbi and PhD, is professor of Jewish philosophy at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he has served as chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy and dean of the Rabbinical School. He is author of Believing and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought; The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Publishers Weekly "Best Book of the Year"; The Way Into Encountering God in Judaism; The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians; Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life (all Jewish Lights) and Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew, winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

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Editorial
Jewish Lights Publishing
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1580238408
ISBN 13 
9781580238403
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
224
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