Religion, Neuroscience and New Physics in Dialogue

Stone Age Souls in Modern Minds

By (author) Darren Marks

Publication date:

03 August 2021

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781839980091

Can we live with being merely a brain with a history of being souls? Can our supra-nature, learnt in the crucible of religion and expressed in theology, survive without being exiled to the quantum mysteries of consciousness? Our very survival depends on these questions being answered and in a manner by which a non-expert can understand.

The book explores these ideas and posits how we might be able to understand ourselves as merely brain without the confusion of pixie dust in the nanotubules, reorienting ourselves to the idea of Nature, and our humane ethical response. By looking at the challenge of neuroscience to identity and our souls, the book explores the tension of being scientific and theological and helps guide the reader to what can be said by either front in our axial age.

Foreword; Chapter One: Stone Age Souls; Chapter Two: Modern Minds – Education to Reality?; Chapter Three: Multiverses or the Home of G-d?; Chapter Four: Three Great Errors: Deconstructing Nature, Naturalism and Scientism: Fictions or Delusions?; Chapter Five: Returning the Soul: Fictions or Illusions?; Chapter Six: Can We Be Good? What Models Do We Have?; Chapter Seven: Concluding Postscript or We’re Okay?.

“This book breaks important new ground in the frontiers of the science and theology debate. Its exploration of the theological problems presented by neuroscience is both novel and accessible, and will be of interest not only to those working in theological anthropology and the science-theology debate. It also addresses non-specialist readers working in such fields as biological science, medicine, and spiritual care in clinical settings.” — Dr. Gary D. Badcock, Peache Professor of Divinity (Emeritus), Huron at Western University, Canada