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The Gospel According to Neuroscience - Curt Thompson Part 1
Part 1 of a 3-part series on the relevance of neuroscience to Christian spirituality. A Biola University Center for Christian Thought interview with Curt Thompson, M.D., author of Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections Between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices that Can Transform Your Life and Relationships.
Narrator: What does your brain have to do with your spiritual life? Does your relationship with God have anything to do with that complex tangle of neurons between your ears? Psychiatrist Curt Thompson is the author of Anatomy of the Soul, a book exploring surprising connections between neuroscience and spiritual practices that can transform your life and relationships. Curt is working from recent developments in the brain sciences, so neurobiology, neuropsychology, psychiatry, and he’s applying those findings to Christian spirituality. [Holy chimes]
Neuroscience is a helpful dialect by which we can speak the Gospel to a generation that is listening to neuroscience probably as much as it’s listening to any other motif, any other story, any other metaphor that we have in the western culture today. There’s very little that we do that doesn’t somehow invite somebody to talk about the brain as it relates to it. Doesn’t really matter what the topic is. Preaching the Gospel in the language of neuroscience is a helpful thing to do, not because neuroscience is replacing the Gospel, but because it seems to me that God, who does not leave himself without a witness, is using this particular aspect of his creation, for this particular time in our history, to remind people of the story that he’s been telling from the beginning.
Narrator: Make sure to check out each of the clips from our interview with Curt Thompson and for more resources related to neuroscience and the soul, go to The Center for Christian Thoughts website at CCT.BIOLA.EDU.
