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The physical nature of Christian life : neuroscience, psychology, and the church
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ISBN: 9781139516440 1139516442 9781139518291 1139518291 9781139015134 1139015133 9781280775024 1280775025 9780521515931 0521515939 9780521734219 0521734215 1139507826 1107224217 9786613685414 1139517368 1139514792 1139513869 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book explores the implications of recent insights in modern neuroscience for the church's view of spiritual formation. Science suggests that functions of the brain and body in collaboration with social experience, rather than a disembodied soul, provide physical basis for the mental capacities, interpersonal relations, and religious experiences of human beings. The realization that human beings are wholly physical, but with unique mental, relational and spiritual capacities, challenges traditional views of Christian life as defined by the care of souls, a view that leads to inwardness and individuality. Psychology and neuroscience suggest the importance of developmental openness, attachment, imitation and stories as tools in spiritual formation. Accordingly, the idea that care of embodied persons should be fundamentally social and communal sets new priorities for encouraging spiritual growth and building congregations.


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Franciscan virtue : spiritual growth and the virtues in Franciscan literature and instruction of the thirteenth century
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ISBN: 9789004221567 9789004223400 9004221565 9004223401 1283470748 9786613470744 Year: 2012 Volume: 161 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the virtues of evangelical life according to three major Franciscan authors: Francis of Assisi, Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, and David of Augsburg. It is the first to offer a historical and source-based treatment of early Franciscan virtue discourse, by answering the following questions: How do the authors describe and prescribe the essential virtues for the life in the footsteps of Jesus Christ? How are the spiritual virtues acquired or lost? How do the development and application of these virtues shape “perfect” individuals as well as the “good” of the community? This work is a valuable contribution to our understanding of how the virtues functioned as central, organizing elements in early Franciscan literature and instruction.

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Christian religious orders --- Christian spirituality --- Franciscans --- anno 1200-1299 --- anno 500-1199 --- Spiritual formation --- Virtue. --- Church history --- Formation spirituelle --- Vertus --- Eglise --- Histoire --- History. --- Spiritual formation. --- 271.3-7 "12" --- Christianity --- Conduct of life --- Ethics --- Human acts --- Christian character formation --- Formation, Spiritual --- Growth, Spiritual --- Spiritual growth --- Spiritual life --- Christian education --- Discipling (Christianity) --- Franciskaanse liturgie en spiritualiteit--?"12" --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Alcantarines --- Bernardyni --- Cordeliers --- Discalced Friars Minor --- Família Franciscana --- Frades Menores --- Frailes Menores --- Franciscains --- Franciscan Discalceati --- Franciscan Order --- Franciscan Reformati --- Franciszkanie --- Frant︠s︡iskanskiĭ orden --- Frant︠s︡iskant︠s︡y --- Frati minori --- Fratres minores --- Frères mineurs --- Friars, Gray --- Friars Minor --- Gråbrøderne --- Gray Friars --- Grey Friars --- Mala braća --- Minderbrüder --- Minoriten --- Minorites --- O.F.M. --- Observants --- OFM --- Ojcowie Franciszkanie --- Ordem dos Frades Menores --- Ordem dos Franciscanos --- Ordem Franciscana --- Orden de Frailes Menores --- Orden de los Frailes Menores --- Orden Franciscana --- Orden sv. Frant︠s︡iska --- Order of Friars Minor --- Ordine dei Frati Minori --- Ordine dei minori --- Ordo Fratrum Minorum --- Reformati --- Reformed Franciscans --- Seraphic Order --- Capuchins --- Conventuals --- Franciscan Recollects --- Religiöse Literatur. --- Tugend (Motiv) --- Franziskaner. --- Geschichte 1220-1300. --- Tugend (Motiv). --- 271.3-7 "12" Franciskaanse liturgie en spiritualiteit--?"12" --- Franciscains mineurs --- Ordre des frères franciscains mineurs --- Virtue --- RELIGION / Christian Life / General.

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