Knowing and knowing God
Knowledge may include something more than cognitive and emotional functions--it may be related to parts of our consciousness of which we're only dimly aware, one pastoral theologian suggests.And, she adds, the way the brain "knows" might suggest some things about God.
"If psychoanalysis, postmodern philosophy and brain science are all converging on a conception of the human being and, indeed, creation as more multiple, complex, and in-motion than we had previously thought, then might this not suggest a conception of a multiple, complex and dynamic God?" Pamela Cooper-White of Lutheran Theological Seminary asks in Science and Theology News.
Cooper-White was a respondent to neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran's presentation, "What Neurology Can Tell Us about Human Nature and the Meaning of Art," at a conference sponsored in March by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Ramachandran argues that neuroscience can help us understand how the brain develops metaphors and understands art--creativity activities that are, in some ways, at the root of theology of all strips and pastoral theology and pastoral care in particular.
.: Posted by Duane Bidwell on Thursday, May 27, 2004
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