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Informationen zum Autor REV CANON DR FRASER WATTS is Reader in Science and Theology, and director of the Psychology and Religion Research Group, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge (PRRG). He is a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, Chief Research Officer of the Cambridge Institute for Applied Psychology and Religion, and a former president of the British Psychological Society. He is the author or editor of many books, including Theology and Psychology (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002). DR GEOFF DUMBRECK is a former research associate in the Psychology and Religion Research Group. He is the author of Schleiermacher and Religious Feeling (Leuven: Peeters, 2012). He is now training for ordained ministry in the Church of England at Ripon College, Cuddesdon. Klappentext Head and Heart: Perspectives from Religion and Psychology takes an inter-disciplinary approach, linking the thinking of theologians and philosophers with theory and research in present-day psychology. The tradition of using framing questions that have been developed in theology and philosophy can now be brought into dialogue with scientific approaches developed within cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Though these scientific approaches have not generally used the terms “head” and “heart,” they have arrived at a similar distinction in other ways. There is a notable convergence upon the realization that humans have two modes of cognition at their disposal that correspond to “head” and “heart.” The time is therefore ripe to bring the approaches of theology and science in to dialogue—an important dialogue that has been heretofore neglected.
