Individuality in Theological Anthropology and Theories of Embodied Cognition: with Fraser Watts, “Embodied Cognition and Religion”; John A. Teske, “From Embodied to Extended Cognition”; Daniel H. Weiss, “Embodied Cognition in Classical Rabbinic Literature”; Léon Turner, “Individuality in Theological Anthropology and Theories of Embodied Cognition”; and Warren S. Brown and Kevin S. Reimer, “Embodied Cognition, Character Formation, and Virtue.”

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,...

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Autor principal: Turner, Léon (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 2013
En: Zygon
Año: 2013, Volumen: 48, Número: 3, Páginas: 808-831
Otras palabras clave:B Persona
B uniqueness
B Narrative
B Individual
B Embodied Cognition
B Relationality
B Identity
B Culture
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Sumario: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.
ISSN:1467-9744
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12039