Cognitive Science and the New Testament A New Approach to Early Christian Research

The cognitive approach changes the way we study the historical past. Most importantly, when using cognitive models, we start the ...

historical narrative. For example, Paul’s epistles are usually put into a sequence from 1 Thessalonians to Romans and the disput ...

significance of social, economic, and political processes can be denied, both types of explanations of Christian origins run int ...

explicitly or implicitly. Aspects of the divine studied in the Cognitive Science of Religion include superhuman agency, counteri ...

question of transcendent values is of practical significance for both conducting our personal lives and deciding on public polic ...

every age created its own portrait of the historical Jesus to its likeness. How can the cognitive approach presented in this boo ...

many contexts, the text is encountered as an oral/aural event. As Risto Uro (2013b, p. 70) emphasized, the“voice, tone, intonati ...

cognitive structures. As a result, we can create translations of the New Testament and do so in different languages and still ho ...

texts all. Thus it is reasonable to assume that texts constrain meaning and a cognitive approach can help us understand how they ...

If thefinal form of the text carries information that both exists independ- ently from the readers’minds and is detached from th ...

of different types of writings. The formation of monasteries, the emergence of the Rabbinical tradition with its own techniques ...

power of the replicator over the process. It is important to note that neither the Bible alone, nor sacred texts in general, con ...

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