Re: neuroscience and soul: was cruzan v schiavo what a difference a decade makes

Another recent publication, Jack, that you might find of interest is _What
About the Soul? Neuroscience and Christian Anthropology_, edited by Joel B.
Green (Abingdon, 2004). It explores scientific, theological and pastoral
questions related to the topic. An older but still recent publication is
_Neuroscience and the Human Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine
Action_, ed. R. Russell, Nancey Murphey, et al. (Vatican Observatory/CTNS,
1999). This volume constitutes the collection of papers given at the
Vatican/CTNS Conference on this topic held in 1998. I have not read either
of these volumes (and in fact just aquired the first book), and cannot
comment on the contents, but the writers represent a range of Catholic,
Anglican, and Protestant thinkers on the subject. The question that has
emerged in recent years might be summarized as follows: how are Christians
to understand the nature of "soul" in the light of the recent scientific
discoveries in the fields of neuroscience, the cognitive and other functions
of the human brain, and concepts being developed in evolutionary psychology.

Bob

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From: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
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Subject: Re: cruzan v schiavo what a difference a decade makes

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jack syme" <drsyme@cablespeed.com>
> To: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>; "Glenn Morton"
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>
>
>> Personally I am confused and curious about a topic that was brought up,
>> and that is, what is the relationship between the body, the brain and the
>> soul. I have been dealing with this issue for the past 15 years or so,
>> and still have no clue about where the soul resides, when it leaves the
>> body, what does it mean to be a person, and what does it mean to die for
>> that matter.
>>
>> I will read some Polkinghorne as Wayne suggested, but would be interested
>> on others thoughts about this too.
>
> Though I don't endorse all the views expressed in it I think that the
> collection of essays edited by Warren S. Brown, Nancey Murphy and H.
> Newton Maloney, _Whatever Happened to the Soul: Scientific and
> Theological Portraits of Human Nature_ (Fortress, 1998) is helpful.
>
> Shalom
> George
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Sat Mar 19 15:49:26 2005