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A theological approach to understanding our biological selves, offering a Christian view of an embodied self that transcends older dualist notions.
Our Bodies Are Selves is a look at what it means to be human in a world where medical technology and emerging ethical insight force us to rethink the boundaries of humanity/spirit and man/machine. This book gives us a fresh look at how our expanding biological views of ourselves and our shared evolutionary history shows us a picture that may not always illumine who and where we are as Christians. Offering up Christian theological views of embodiment, the authors give everyday examples of lives of love, faith, and bodily realities that offer the potential to create new definitions of what it means to be a faith community in an increasingly technological age of medicine.
Our Bodies Are Selves is a look at what it means to be human in a world where medical technology and emerging ethical insight force us to rethink the boundaries of humanity/spirit and man/machine. This book gives us a fresh look at how our expanding biological views of ourselves and our shared evolutionary history shows us a picture that may not always illumine who and where we are as Christians. Offering up Christian theological views of embodiment, the authors give everyday examples of lives of love, faith, and bodily realities that offer the potential to create new definitions of what it means to be a faith community in an increasingly technological age of medicine.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 216
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Publication Date:
31 December 2015
Trim Size: 9.02 X 5.98 in
ISBN: 9780718894221
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, Christianity, Theology
In one way or another, most of us work to figure out life. Meaning is complex and often elusive. We are especially challenged when facing the uncertainties of personal illness and decline. This text helps to show us the way. A new paradigm, 'bodyself', forcefully challenges the old mind-body dualism of the venerable Descartes and some now antiquated views of medical practice. Hefner, Baretto, and Pederson's perspective is compelling, with a reasoned approach that draws the reader in.
— Jerome W. Freeman, John C. Sall MD Professor in Medicine, Professor and Chair, Neurosciences, USD, Sanford School of Medicine
Each essay is thoughtful and considered. ... Imaginative and compelling passages elevate the idea of bodyself above the conventions of dualism.
— Roy McCloughry
— Jerome W. Freeman, John C. Sall MD Professor in Medicine, Professor and Chair, Neurosciences, USD, Sanford School of Medicine
Each essay is thoughtful and considered. ... Imaginative and compelling passages elevate the idea of bodyself above the conventions of dualism.
— Roy McCloughry
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 A New Paradigm: Body-Self - Philip Hefner and Ann Milliken Pederson
2 Getting Around: Disability and Life in the Spirit - Philip Hefner
3 Personal Narrative: Living in the Middle Years - Ann Milliken Pederson
4 In the Early Years: Tiny Promises - Susan Barreto
5 Discovering Our Culture's Script: A Manifesto about Our Cultural Views of Bodyselves - Ann Milliken Pederson
6 Where Medicine and Christianity Collide - Ann Milliken Pederson
7 A Scientific Take on Our Bodyselves: What Science Tells Us about Our Bodies and Ourselves - Philip Hefner
8 The Human Journey - Philip Hefner
9 Nature, Mystery, and God - Philip Hefner
10 Luther on the Body: Incarnation, Sacrament, Technoself, and Faith - Ann Milliken Pederson
11 The Body of Christ - Ann Milliken Pederson
Afterword
Suggestions for Further Reading
Bibliography
Abbreviations
1 A New Paradigm: Body-Self - Philip Hefner and Ann Milliken Pederson
2 Getting Around: Disability and Life in the Spirit - Philip Hefner
3 Personal Narrative: Living in the Middle Years - Ann Milliken Pederson
4 In the Early Years: Tiny Promises - Susan Barreto
5 Discovering Our Culture's Script: A Manifesto about Our Cultural Views of Bodyselves - Ann Milliken Pederson
6 Where Medicine and Christianity Collide - Ann Milliken Pederson
7 A Scientific Take on Our Bodyselves: What Science Tells Us about Our Bodies and Ourselves - Philip Hefner
8 The Human Journey - Philip Hefner
9 Nature, Mystery, and God - Philip Hefner
10 Luther on the Body: Incarnation, Sacrament, Technoself, and Faith - Ann Milliken Pederson
11 The Body of Christ - Ann Milliken Pederson
Afterword
Suggestions for Further Reading
Bibliography