Reframing Paul's Anthropology in Light of the Cognitive Sciences: Exercising Care in Interdisciplinary New Testament Scholarship

Susan Eastman's recent contribution to scholarship on Paul's anthropology is a welcome example of authentic interdisciplinarity. The book highlights core themes in recent work from the cognitive sciences and shows how these themes might guide readings of the Pauline corpus. At the same tim...

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Main Author: Spezio, Michael (Author)
Contributors: Gallagher, Shaun 1948- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2018]
In: Journal for the study of the New Testament
Year: 2018, Volume: 40, Issue: 4, Pages: 494-502
Review of:Paul and the person (Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2017) (Spezio, Michael)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Pauline letters / Person / Neurosciences
IxTheo Classification:CF Christianity and Science
HC New Testament
NBE Anthropology
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Cognitive Science
B Theology
B giftedness
B Book review
B Neuroscience
B Bible. New Testament
B Imitation
B Anthropology
B EASTMAN, Susan
B mirror neurons
B Identity
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Summary:Susan Eastman's recent contribution to scholarship on Paul's anthropology is a welcome example of authentic interdisciplinarity. The book highlights core themes in recent work from the cognitive sciences and shows how these themes might guide readings of the Pauline corpus. At the same time, there are useful warnings about confusing the aims of the sciences of the person with the anthropological aims that motivate theological interpretations of sacred texts. In this review article I explore Eastman's emphasis on the Pauline project's grounding of personhood in categories of spiritually-morally formational-relational constitution; I highlight difficulties with the current status of mirror neuron theory and of imitation in early childhood development and emphasize the importance of primary literature for interdisciplinary scholarship in religious studies and theology.
ISSN:1745-5294
Reference:Kritik in "Divine Love and the Constitution of the Self (2018)"
Kritik in "Embodied Cognitive Science and the Person (2019)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0142064X18769516