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Book Review: The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense

Description: Review of a book titled "The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense" written by Michael A. Jawer and Marc S. Micozzi, discussing how "anomalous or transpersonal experiences could be understood through neurobiological processes."
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Foster, Ryan D.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Resurrection Appearances of Jesus as After-Death Communication

Description: Abstract: Scientific research into after-death communication began at the end of the 19th century. During this early period, psychical researcher James Hyslop and theologian Rudolph Otto wrote about the resurrection of Jesus as a visionary / spiritual experience -- as opposed to a physical, "bodily" resurrection. More recently, liberal theologians and religious experience researchers have also favored this view. The purpose of this article is to: (a) underscore the fact that the resurrection… more
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Vincent, Ken R.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Resurrection Appearances of Jesus as After-Death Communication: Rejoinder to Gary Habermas

Description: Abstract: Gary Habermas has chosen to respond to my paper on the resurrection of Jesus as an after-death communication using theological arguments that try to prove the resurrection of Jesus was somehow a religious event unique in all human history. I counter his assertions with data from religious/spiritual experience research and, to a lesser extent, liberal Christian scholars. I restate my conclusion that Paul's first-hand and verified second-hand accounts of the resurrection in I Corinthi… more
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Vincent, Ken R.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Resurrection Appearances of Jesus as After-Death Communication: Response to Ken Vincent

Description: Abstract: Jesus' resurrection appearances would in some sense comprise after-death messages. But this designation does not necessarily identify them as the sort of after-death communications (ADCs) that are well-known to readers of the Journal. More generally, to hold that the resurrection appearances were ADCs, at least as Ken Vincent has argued, seems to commit a logical fallacy, so that the form of the argument itself cannot sustain the weight of the conclusion. The most that the argument… more
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Habermas, Gary R.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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