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10. Neuroscience and the Human Soul / Human Responsibility

  • Beauregard, Mario & Denyse O’Leary. The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul. San Francisco, CA: HarperOne, 2007.
  • Brown, Warren, et al. Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1998.
  • Bulkeley, Kelly, editor. Soul, Psyche, Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-Mind Science. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
  • Bulkeley, Kelly. The Wondering Brain: Thinking about Religion with and beyond Cognitive Neuroscience. New York: Routledge, 2005.
  • Clayton, Philip & Paul Davies. The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Clayton, Philip. Mind & Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • d’Aquili, Eugene & Andrew B. Newberg. The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1999.
  • d’Aquili, Eugene & Andrew B. Newberg. Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief. New York: Random House, 2001.
  • Du Toit, Cornel W., ed.  Brain, Mind, and Soul: Unifying the Human Self. Pretoria: Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2002.
  • Flanagan, Owen. The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of the Mind and How to Reconcile Them. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
  • Graves, Mark. Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul: Human Systems of Cognitive Science and Religion. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008.
  • Green, Joel B. & Stuart L. Palmer, eds. In Search of the Soul: Four Views of the Mind-Body Problem. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2005.
  • Green, Joel B. Body Soul, and Human Life. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2008.
  • Green, Joel B. What about the Soul? Neuroscience and Christian Anthropology. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004.
  • Gregersen, Niels H., et al. The Human Person in Science and Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000.
  • Habgood, John. Being a Person: Where Faith and Science Meet. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998.
  • Jeeves, Malcolm A. & Warren S. Brown. Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton, 2009.
  • Jeeves, Malcolm, ed. From Cells to Souls - and Beyond: Changing Portraits of Human Nature. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004.
  • Jeeves, Malcolm. Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2013.
  • Lorimer, David, ed. Science, Consciousness and Ultimate Reality. Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2004.
  • Moreland, J.P. & Scott B. Rae. Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2000.
  • Murphy, Nancey & Warren Brown. Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Murphy, Nancey. Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Newberg, Andrew. Principles of Neurotheology. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010.
  • Peterson, Gregory R. Minding God: Theology and the Cognitive Sciences. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002.
  • Runehov, Anne L. C. Sacred or Neural: The Potential of Neuroscience to Explain Religious Experience. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007.
  • Russell, Robert John & Nancey Murphy & T. Meyering & M. Arbib, eds. Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action. Vatican City & Berkeley, CA: Vatican State Observatory & CTNS, 2000.
  • Seybold, Kevin S. Exploration in Neuroscience, Psychology and Religion. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.
  • Van Slyke, James A., et al., eds. Theology and the Science of Moral Action: Virtue Ethics, Exemplarity, and Cognitive Neuroscience. New York: Routledge, 2012.
  • Ward, Keith. In Defence of the Soul. Oxford: OneWorld Publications, 1998.

Contributed by: Dr. Randy Maddox

The Natural Sciences and Christian Theology - A Select Bibliography

  I. Historical and Social Background of Contemporary Western Science
  II. Reflections on the Nature of Modern Science
     A. Expositions of Modern Scientific Method
     B. Introductions to the Philosophy of Science
     C. Debates over the Social Dimensions of Modern Science
  III. Popular Expositions of Contemporary Natural Science
     A. General and Survey Treatments
     B. Mathematics
     C. Particle Physics
     D. Chemistry
     E. Chaos & Complexity Theory
     F. Cosmology and Astrophysics
     G. Geology and Natural History
     H. Evolutionary Molecular Biology
     I. Sociobiology / Evolutionary Psychology
     J. Neuroscience
     K. Environmental Science/Ecology
  IV. Historical Treatments of Interaction between Natural Science and Christianity in the West
  V. Contemporary Engagement of the Natural Sciences and Christian Theology
     A. Typological Surveys of Current Science/Theology Engagement
     B. Introductions to Current Science/Theology Engagement
     C. Survey Essay Collections of Current Science/Theology Engagement
     D. Important Journals for the Current Science/Theology Engagement
     E. Representative Recent Engagements of Theology by Natural Scientists
     F. Representative Recent Engagements of Natural Science by Christian Theologians
        1. Broad Western Christian Engagements
        2. “Evangelical” Western Christian Engagements
        3. Eastern Orthodox  Engagements
        4. Consciously Revisionist Christian Engagements
           a. Moving toward a fully “Naturalist” Theology
           b. Moving toward a Universal “Mystical” Theology
     G. Select Topics in Current Natural Science / Christian Theology Dialogue
        1. The Status of Theology as a “Science”
        2. Mathematical Order of the Universe and the Divine
        3. Contemporary Physics and Divine Action / Providence
        4. Contemporary Evolutionary Biology and Divine Action / Providence
        5. Contemporary Cosmology and Creatio ex Nihilo
        6. The Creation/Evolution Controversy
           a. Detailed Bibliographies of the Controversy
           b. Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the Controversy
           c. Contemporary Anti-supernaturalist Darwinists
           d. Recent Critiques of Naturalistic Darwinism (esp. “Intelligent Design”)
           e. Scientific Counter-Critiques of Creationism
           f. Surveys of the Diversity in “Creationist” Views
           g. Representative Young-Earth Creationist Advocates
           h. Representative Progressive Creationists
           i. Representative Fully Gifted Creationists (or Theistic Evolutionists)
           j. Additional Exegetical and Theological Perspectives
        7. Cosmology and Eschatology
        8. Sociobiology / Evolutionary Psychology and Human Nature
        9. Genetic Impact on Behavior and Human Responsibility
        10. Neuroscience and the Human Soul / Human Responsibility
     H. Engagement of Ethical Dimensions of Modern Science/Technology
       1. Survey Treatments
       2. Nuclear Energy and Weapons
       3. Ethical Issues in Genetic Engineering
       4. Ecological Crisis, Environmentalism, and Christian Worldview

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Dr. Randy Maddox

Prepared with support of the John Templeton Oxford Seminar on Science and Christianity (1999-2002)