‘Implanted in us by Nature’: The Cognitive Science of Religion and its Importance for Theology
Abstract: The Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) holds that religion emerges from human cognition and its intuitions. Hence, it describes religion as a ‘natural’ belief in ‘supernatural agents’. Traditional theology also maintained that there is an ‘innate’ or ‘implanted’ knowledge of God or gods....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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Heythrop journal
Year: 2023, Volume: 64, Issue: 6, Pages: 745-762 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion CB Christian life; spirituality NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology |
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