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    Co-Creating Beauty amidst Human Suffering

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    -What does healing mean for Christians and others in an age of science? -How can a person relate scientific findings about one's body, philosophical understanding of one's mind, and theological investigations about one's spirit into a coherent and unified model of the person capable of leading one deeper into one's soul? -How does God continue creating through nature and direct one's wandering ... Read more

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    Through the Eyes of Scientists and Musicians

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
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    Human Systems of Cognitive Science and Religion

    by Mark Graves ...
    Series series Routledge Science and Religion Series
    Does science argue against the existence of the human soul? Many scientists and scholars believe the whole is more than the sum of the parts. This book uses information and systems theory to describe the "more" that does not reduce to the parts. One sees this in the synapses”or apparently empty gaps between the neurons in one's brain”where informative relationships give rise to human mind, culture ... Read more

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