03017nam 22005291 450 991082774130332120200514202323.00-567-67142-90-567-67140-20-567-67141-010.5040/9780567671424(CKB)4340000000214454(MiAaPQ)EBC4987654(OCoLC)999309230(UkLoBP)bpp09261133(UtOrBLW)bpp09261133(EXLCZ)99434000000021445420171025d2017 uy 0engur|n#||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierTheological neuroethics Christian ethics meets the science of the human brain /by Neil MesserNew York :Bloomsbury T&T Clark,2017.1 online resource ( 216 pages)T&T Clark enquiries in theological ethicsPrint version: 9780567671394 0567688011 0567671399 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Pious primates with believing brains: evolutionary, cognitive and neuroscientific accounts of religion -- 'Like God, knowing good and evil': the neuroscience of morality and the theological suspicion of ethics -- Freedom, responsibility, sin and grace: 'Mr Puppet' meets St Augustine -- Consciousness and its disorders: Uncle Charlie revisited -- Messing with our minds: the ethics of technological interventions in the brain -- Conclusion: beyond mutual neglect."Neil Messer brings together a range of theoretical and practical questions raised by current research on the human brain: questions about both the 'ethics of neuroscience' and the 'neuroscience of ethics'. While some of these are familiar to theologians, others have been more or less ignored hitherto, and the field of neuroethics as a whole has received little theological attention. Drawing on both theological ethics and the science-and-theology field, Messer discusses cognitive-scientific and neuroscientific studies of religion, arguing that they do not give grounds to dismiss theological perspectives on the human self. He examines a representative range of topics across the whole field of neuroethics, including consciousness, the self and the value of human life; the neuroscience of morality; determinism, freewill and moral responsibility; and the ethics of cognitive enhancement."--Bloomsbury Publishing.International theological commentary on the Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testaments.Christian ethicsCongressesBrainCongressesNeurosciencesCongressesChristian ethicsBrainNeurosciences241Messer Neil1618529UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910827741303321Theological neuroethics3950298UNINA