Theology, evolution and the mind [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Neil Spurway

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463446503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2009
• ISBN: 1-4438-1016-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SpurwayNeil <1936->
• Disciplina: 231.765
• Soggetti: Human evolution - Religious aspects - Christianity; Mind and body; Brain - Evolution; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; THE SCIENCE AND RELIGION FORUM; INTRODUCTION; PART 1; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; PART 2; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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...