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Our Brain On God

Posted Mar 25 2011 by Jonathan Brink in , with 5 Comments

“Contemplating a loving God strengthens portions of our brain–particularly the frontal lobes and anterior cingulate-where empathy and reason reside. Contemplating a wrathful God empowers the limbic system, which is “filled with aggression and fear.” It is a sobering concept: The God we choose to love changes us into his image, whether he exists or not.”

Michael Gershon, reviewing Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman’s, How God Changes Your Brain.

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Jonathan BrinkI am an business development and communications consultant. I am also the senior editor and publisher for Civitas Press. I recently published, Discovering The God Imagination: Reconstructing A Whole, New Christianity. (Civitas, 2011)View all posts by Jonathan Brink →

  • http://charlieschurchofchrist.wordpress.com/ Charlie’s Church of Christ

    have you read the book? Is it difficult to understand? Being a drug and alcohol counselor I’ve studied how the brain works, but I’m far from understanding it all.

    • http://jonathanbrink.com Jonathan Brink

      I haven’t read the book, although it’s in my wishlist, but it jibes with so much of my other research into neuroscience. We live with the constructed reality we create.

  • http://www.JanetOberholtzer.com Janet Oberholtzer

    Interesting! Very interesting. nI need to read that book … this paragraph makes me ask a few questions:nn1. So what someone says about God is based more on what type of person they are than on who God is or isn’t?n2. Is it saying that there is no God, we just create one in our mind? (And then insist that we are right and damn everyone else to hell)

  • http://paradigmshift-jmac.blogspot.com Jmachuta2

    Another proverb makes sense…. as one thinks in his/her heart so is she/he!

  • http://www.tillhecomes.org Jeremy Myers

    Jonathan, nnHope your talk with Laurie went well today. She is a lifelong friend of mine. nnI am not sure if you know any new or aspiring authors who might want to join a Google Group we just started. If so, here is the link for more information: http://www.tillhecomes.org/aspiring-authors/

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