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INDIVIDUALITY IN THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND THEORIES OF EMBODIED COGNITION.
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Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science . Sep2013, Vol. 48 Issue 3, p808-831. 24p. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Contemporary theological anthropology is now almost united in its opposition toward concepts of the abstract individual. Instead there is a strong preference for concrete concepts, which locate individual human being in historically and socioculturally contingent contexts. In this paper I identify, and discuss in detail, three key themes that structure recent theological opposition to abstract concepts of the individual: (1) the idea that individual human beings are constituted in part by their relations with their environments, with other human beings, and with God; (2) the idea that individual human beings are unique entities; (3) the idea that individual human beings cannot be conceptualized in atemporal terms. Subsequently, I seek to demonstrate that theories of embodied cognition offer broad, if not unconditional, support for the concept of the concrete individual. As such, I suggest, theories of embodied cognition provide a valuable resource for dialogue between contemporary science and theological anthropology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 05912385
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 89889430
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12039