God on the Brain: What Cognitive Science Does (and Does Not) Tell Us about Faith, Human Nature, and the Divine - Paperback

by Brad Sickler (Author)

"I highly recommend this treasure of learning."
--J. P. Moreland

Advances in modern science have dramatically increased our understanding of the human brain.

While this progress has helped improve many lives, it has also raised many philosophical and theological questions. Researchers are increasingly presenting the brain as comprising the totality of a person. But is this a fair assessment?

Bradley Sickler offers a timely theological, scientific, and philosophical analysis of cognitive science, arguing that the brain is more complex than what can be explained by science alone. Navigating questions about the brain, religion, and science, Sickler guides readers to confidently affirm that the Christian worldview offers the most compelling vision of the true nature of humanity.

• Argues for a distinctly Christian vision of the human person consisting of body, soul, and mind
• Explores the relationship between faith and science
• Interacts with contemporary developments in cognitive science
• Engages how the gospel informs cognitive science
• Provides a theological, scientific, and philosophical assessment of the Bible's teaching on the brain

Author Biography

Bradley L. Sickler (PhD, Purdue University) is associate professor of philosophy and the program director for the master of arts in theological studies program at the University of Northwestern, St. Paul, Minnesota.