2011/01/01 by David Cave, Rebecca Sachs Norris · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #American Constitutional Law and Politics #Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
paper · pdf · doi:10.1163/9789004225343
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This paper considers what the neurobiological reading of the body implies for the reading of scripture. By 'the neurological reading of the body' I refer to how modern science and culture draw upon cognitive science and genetics to explain and to understand what it means to be human. And by the 'reading of scripture' I refer to the practice of the various religious traditions to understand our humanity based on claims of inspired and revealed insights, said to come from some agency transcendent to our naturalized mind and body. I contend that within a naturalistic system these two readings are not mutually exclusive but interrelate such that the reading of one informs and illumines the reading of the other.