Insight to Heal
Co-Creating Beauty Amidst Human Suffering
Published on 12. February 2013
Book
Hardback
318 pages
978-1-4982-1521-3 (ISBN)
Description
-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 toward becoming created co-creators capable of ministering to others?
The reality of human suffering demands that theology and science mutually inform each other in a shared understanding of nature, humanity, and paths to healing. Mark Graves draws upon systems theory, pragmatic philosophy, and biological and cognitive sciences to distinguish wounds that limit who a person may become, and uses information theory, emergence, and Christian theology to define healing as distinct from a return to a prior state of being and rather instead as creating real possibility in who the person may become.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
683 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4982-1521-3 (9781498215213)
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02/2013
Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Person
Mark Graves has twenty-five years' experience researching and modeling cognitive, biological, and religious dimensions of the person and has published forty technical and scholarly works in those areas, including Mind, Brain, and the Elusive Soul (2008). He taught at Baylor College of Medicine; the University of California, Berkeley; Santa Clara University; and the Graduate Theological Union, including on healing and science at the Pacific School of Religion.