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Buddhism and Western Psychology
- Psychology emerged as an independent field of naturalistic inquiry during an era of dawning Western scholarly and popular interest in Buddhism. Over the past century-and-a-half psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts have analysed, pathologized, misinterpreted, appreciated, assim...
- Author
- Seth Zuihō Segall
- Faith tradition
- Buddhism
- Topics
- Philosophy and science
Mind and Consciousness
- Mind and consciousness are philosophically and theologically significant in many religious and secular traditions. This article focuses on the importance of the concepts of mind and consciousness in Christian theological views of human nature and God. Christian theological teachings that ...
- Author
- Charles Taliaferro
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence, Philosophy and science
Theology and Neuroscience
- Neuroscience, the fastest growing scientific discipline for decades, has affected numerous aspects of Western culture. Thus, one should expect it to have influences on religion as well. This article treats one of the points of intersection with Christianity, the basic metaphysical makeup of...
- Author
- Nancey Murphy and Warren S. Brown
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Philosophy and science
Soul-Body Dualism and Science
- This entry begins with a consideration of what a soul is and whether it is reasonable to believe in its existence. It then looks at what, if anything, the Bible teaches about the existence of the soul, and whether there are non-biblical reasons for believing in the soul’s existence. Some bibl...
- Author
- Stewart Goetz
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Philosophy and science
Yoga
- Yoga represents both a philosophy and a practice, with the goal of liberation. Although ascetic practices existed previously, and the word yoga appears in the Vedas, the first definition is in the Kaṭha Upaniṣad, where it is described as ‘the steady restraint of the senses’, building on the...
- Author
- Zoë Slatoff
- Faith tradition
- Hinduism
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Theology and Psychiatry
- Theology and psychiatry have a common concern with the human mind or soul, but very different histories of how they have understood and investigated their respective interests. Christian theology, which we might refer to here as the ‘science of God’, has developed over a period of two thous...
- Author
- Christopher C. H. Cook
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Philosophy and science
Image of God (Imago Dei)
- Imago Dei is a key concept in theological anthropology. This article examines its biblical use in Genesis and in the writings of Paul. In both cases, a crucial question is whether the image of God refers to aspects of human existence or to a reality in God in which humans participate. Furth...
- Author
- Peter Søes
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
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