Reviving Christian humanism : the new conversation on spirituality, theology, and psychology / Don S. Browning

Author:: Browning, Don S.
Published:: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2010]
Copyright Date:: ©2010
Physical Description:: vi, 186 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents:

1. Science, Religion, and a Revived Religious Humanism -- Religious Humanisms of the Past -- Epistemological Frameworks for a Revived Religious Humanism -- The Role of Objectivity or Distanciation -- Beginning with the Traditions That Form Us -- 2. Broadening Psychology, Refining Theology -- Spiritual Transformation and Atonement -- Radical Empathy in Neuroscience and Psychotherapy -- Mediating the Theories of Christ's Death -- Psychotherapy and the Atonement -- Radical Empathy and the Classic View of Atonement -- Another Example: The Agape, Caritas, and Eros Debate -- Moral Implications of Kin Altruism and Inclusive Fitness -- Christian Love versus Health -- Notes on My Personal Christology -- Coda on Spirituality and Religion -- 3. Change and Critique in Psychology, Therapy, and Spirituality -- Earlier Sins and Preoccupations -- Ricoeur's Model of Ethics and Morality -- The Five Dimensions of Moral Reflection -- The Five Dimensions and the Contemporary Science-Religion Discussion -- The Place of Evolutionary Psychology -- The Place of the New Moral Intuitionism -- Classic Practices and the Deontological Test -- 4. Religion, Science, and the New Spirituality -- Examples of the New Spirituality -- The Double Entendre of Spiritual Language -- The Double Language of Psychology and Psychotherapy -- Spirituality and Practical Reason -- 5. Mental Health and Spirituality: Their Institutional Embodiment -- The Crisis in Psychiatry -- Difficulties with Humanistic Psychiatry -- Is Psychiatry Alienated from American Religion? -- Religious Humanism and a Public Philosophy for Psychiatry -- Narrative Identity and the Religious -- 6. Institutional Ethics and Families: Therapy, Law, and Religion -- The Ethics of Family and Marriage Counselors -- The Case of Psychology, Biology, and Evolutionary Theory -- The Case of Law: Close Relationships, Channeling, and Bio-Economics -- Interactions between Therapy and the Law -- The New Social-Science Interest in Institutions -- Margaret Brinig: Law and Institutional Economics -- Epilogue on the Future of Science and Religion.

Summary:

"Is there a future for intellectually honest faith at the service of humankind? Esteemed theologian Don S. Browning strongly argues that there is and offers a manifesto for a new religious humanism. He argues that the time is right for religious intellectuals in conversation with the social sciences to reinvigorate the deep humanistic strands of the grand religions and enter into global interfaith dialogue."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

9780800696269 (alk. paper) and 0800696263 (alk. paper)

Note:

Book evolved from six lectures given by the author at Boston University.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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