Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Figures......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
1. Prospect and problems......Page 13
2. History\'s ambiguous message......Page 18
2.1 Contradictions in historical criticism......Page 19
2.2 So where do we stand?......Page 22
3. Ancient philosophy and early Christian thought......Page 23
3.1 Plato and Aristotle......Page 24
3.2 Early Christian responses......Page 25
3.3 Medieval and Reformation developments......Page 26
4. So what does the Bible say?......Page 28
4.1 Old Testament scholarship......Page 29
4.2 Conflicting accounts of the New Testament......Page 31
4.3 My thesis......Page 34
5.1 Doctrine of God......Page 35
5.2 Christology and Trinity......Page 36
5.3 Salvation and history......Page 39
6.1 Augustinian inwardness......Page 42
6.2 Contemporary revisions......Page 44
7. Retrospect......Page 48
1. Prospect......Page 51
2. The atomist revolution in physics......Page 52
2.1 The medieval world-picture......Page 53
2.2 The Copernican challenge......Page 56
3. The Darwinian revolution......Page 60
3.1 Our embarrassing relatives......Page 61
3.2 Theological roots of social Darwinism......Page 63
4. Neuroscience and the soul......Page 67
4.1 Biology and the life principle......Page 68
4.2 Neuroscience and the animal soul......Page 69
4.3 Investigating the rational soul......Page 77
5. Retrospect and prospect......Page 81
1. Prospect......Page 83
2. What’s wrong with reductionism?......Page 85
2.1 The pervasive influence of pictures......Page 87
2.2 Defending downward causation......Page 90
2.3 Further complications......Page 96
3. The emergence of self-direction......Page 97
3.1 Fixed patterns of complex activity......Page 99
3.2 Mammalian flexibility......Page 100
4. Human self-determination and responsibility......Page 102
4.1 Animal precursors......Page 104
4.2 Language and the prerequisites for morality......Page 105
4.3 Language and self-transcendence......Page 108
4.4 An illustration......Page 110
5.1 A confusion of definitions......Page 114
5.2 A critique of the terms of debate......Page 117
6. Retrospect......Page 121
1. Prospect......Page 123
2.1 On the unreliability of philosophical intuitions......Page 124
2.2 Physicalism as a scientific research program......Page 127
3. Human distinctiveness......Page 128
3.1 Morality versus animal altruism......Page 130
3.2 Physicalism and religious experience......Page 133
4. Divine action in the natural world......Page 135
4.1 Why this should not be a problem......Page 136
4.2 The modern challenge......Page 137
4.3 Current proposals......Page 140
5. Personal identity......Page 144
5.1 Philosophical distinctions......Page 145
5.2 Theological considerations......Page 149
5.3 Bodily identity......Page 153
5.4 What we know we cannot know......Page 154
6. Conclusion......Page 157
Index......Page 161