The Concept of the Soul : Scientific and Religious Perspectives

The Concept of the Soul : Scientific and Religious Perspectives / edited by Michael Fuller.

The idea of the soul is one which will not go away. This is despite the fact that traditional dualist understandings of humankind - that we are compound creatures, made up of a material body and a non-material soul - have been widely criticised in recent decades, by scholars from both theological an...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Science and Religion Forum (Great Britain). Conference
Other Authors: Fuller, Michael, 1963- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Series:Conversations in science and religion
Subjects:
Soul.
Religion and science.
Religion & science.
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology.
Theology.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Anthropology.
Religion and science
Soul
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Table of Contents:
  • The concept of the soul: some scientific and religious perspectives / Michael Fuller
  • The nature of the self and the contemplation of nature: ecotheoogy and the history of the soul / Louise Hickman
  • Catholicism, materialism and the soul / Peter Hunter
  • Mind, soul, and the cognitive neurosciences / Nancey Murphy
  • The brain, consciousness and the soul: is the brain all there is? / Chris Firth
  • Does Jesus have a soul? The Apollinarian controversy revisited / Mark Harris
  • Sacred songs and militant materialists / Peter Colyer
  • Human body, divine spirit: placing Wolfhart Pannenberg's anthropology and pneumatology in the context of materiaism / George Medley III
  • The possibility and the existence of the soul, despite the impotence of science to disclose it / Mehdi Nassaji
  • The venerability of the soul in Islamic psychology / Aemen Javairia and Asma Hussain Khan
  • The Science and Religion Forum: a short history / Jeffrey Robinson.

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