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Wild Capital, p. 1-11, 2019

DOI: 10.5744/florida/9781683401049.003.0001

Transitioning Students into Higher Education, p. 59-60, 2019

DOI: 10.4324/9780429279355-8

Council on Undergraduate Research, Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, 4(2), p. 3-3, 2019

DOI: 10.18833/spur/2/4/12

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Journal article published in 2019 by Reece Jones, James W. Jones, Helen Jones, Robert W. Jones, David R. Jones, Dafydd W. Jones, Polly Jones, Gregg R. Jones, Christian Jones, Kyle M. L. Jones, Raya A. Jones, Emma Jones, Stewart Jones, Chris Jones, Demelza Jones and other authors.
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Abstract

This text is a dialogue between psychology and theology. In different ways, they both deal with understanding the religiously lived life and with the question of whether there is any validity to living that kind of life. The central question of the book is whether it is meaningful and reasonable to speak of a “spiritual sense,” whether there are ways we can “sense” or perceive the reality of God. The first chapter develops an “embodied-relational” approach to human understanding by drawing on two very different psychological paradigms: clinical psychoanalysis and laboratory research into the role embodiment plays in human understanding. The second chapter builds on this review of the empirical findings to discuss some of their implications for the traditional and virtually universal theological topic of human nature. A popular approach to thinking about religion from a psychological perspective is to treat religions as “meaning systems.” The research cited here suggests that our embodiment directly impacts our understanding of how meanings are arrived at, thus affecting how we understand religious meaning-making—the subject of chapter three. The fourth chapter examines the impact of our embodiment on studying and understanding religion. The fifth chapter explores a case for a “spiritual sense” grounded in an embodied approach to human understanding.