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  title info:
    title: Religion, neuroscience and the self
    sub title: a new personalism
  name:
    name part: McNamara, Patrick
    name part: 1956-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 186 pages : 25 cm.
  abstract: This book uses neuroscience discoveries concerning religious experiences, the self and personhood to deepen, enhance and interrogate the theological and philosophical set of ideas known as personalism. McNamara proposes a new eschatological form of personalism that is consistent with current neuroscience models of relevant brain functions concerning the self and personhood and that can meet the catastrophic challenges of the 21st century. Eschatological personalism, rooted in the philosophical tradition of "Boston personalism," takes as its starting point the personalist claim that the significance of a self and personality is not fully revealed until it has reached its endpoint, but theologically that end point can only occur within the eschatological realm. That realm is explored in the book along with implications for personalist theory and ethics. Topics covered include the agent intellect, dreams and the imagination, future-orientation and eschatology, phenomenology of time, social ethics, love, the challenge of AI, privacy and solitude and the individual ethic of autarchy. This book is an innovative combination of the neuroscientific and theological insights provided by a personalist viewpoint. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of cognitive science, theology, religious studies and the philosophy of the mind.
  note: Patrick McNamara.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Personalism
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: Self
  classification: B828.5 .M385 2020
  classification: 141/.5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge studies in neurotheology, cognitvie science and religion
  identifier: 9780367028961
  identifier: 0367028964
  identifier: 9780429001079
  identifier: 2019049148
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191023
    record change date: 20200703102405.0
    record identifier: in00004166138