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2 books match the query 'Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology'
Psychological Science and Christian Faith
Insights and Enrichments from Constructive DialogueMalcolm A. Jeeves
Templeton Press, 2018
Is it possible to integrate scientific psychology with a Christian understanding of human nature? Are science and religion locked in an inevitable conflict, or is there an underlying harmony between these two sources of knowledge about humans? This book goes to the heart of the past and present dialogue between Christianity and psychology, comparing three models that have been used to describe the relationship between them.
Because Christianity and psychology deal with different levels of truth and speak vastly different languages, efforts to unify them often create more problems than they solve. What is needed is a better way to think about the relationship—an approach that does justice to the emerging insights from psychological science and biblical scholarship and that can enrich our understanding of both. In this volume, two accomplished psychologists show how this complementary dialogue can unfold, giving us a broader, deeper understanding of ourselves, our relationships, and our place in the cosmos.
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Because Christianity and psychology deal with different levels of truth and speak vastly different languages, efforts to unify them often create more problems than they solve. What is needed is a better way to think about the relationship—an approach that does justice to the emerging insights from psychological science and biblical scholarship and that can enrich our understanding of both. In this volume, two accomplished psychologists show how this complementary dialogue can unfold, giving us a broader, deeper understanding of ourselves, our relationships, and our place in the cosmos.
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The Science of Religion and the Religion of Scientism
A Neuroscientist's Perspective on Consciousness, Morality, and the New AtheismChristopher Breitmeyer
Catholic University of America Press, 2026
Scientism claims that religion has nothing to offer our understanding of reality. But since religion can be subjected to scientific methods of study, it paradoxically becomes part of a reality larger than that investigated by the sciences.
Scientism is the belief that the empirical sciences provide the sole methods of knowing the truths about reality, and that anything not scientifically observable cannot be real. Hence, religion, theology, ethics, morality, and the creative arts cannot add to our understanding of reality. Scientism, moreover, maintains that scientific and religious understandings of reality relate to each other in distinctively oppositional ways.
Amply informed by philosophical and historical scholarship and by knowledge of evolutionary and neurocognitive methods of research, Bruno G. Breitmeyer offers an in-depth look at the relation between scientism and the sciences of religion.
In Part 1 Breitmeyer covers the sciences of religion and of related fields of morality and art. In all fields, scientistic influences are clearly discernable. In Part 2 he looks at “nice” and “pernicious” versions of scientism and, despite the latter version, at how it constitutes an atheistic ersatz-religion, especially among scientifically informed neoatheists. In Part 3 he goes beyond scientism in two ways. He first introduces the concept of technoscientism—the belief that modern technology can address and solve any problem facing humanity—and traces its history back to Promethean and Gnostic philosophies. Second, he proposes a novel theology of science in which God is conceived as Creative Mind.
The concept of conscious mind, evident throughout the book, points to the crucial role that human subjective experiences plays in scientific and religious practices. Breitmeyer argues that however resolutely scientism attempts to sever science from religion, a supremely creative and conscious Intelligence unites them. Without such Intelligence—theists call it God—neither science nor religion could exist.
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