CHRTC 390
Neuroscience, the Person and Christian Theology
Winter 2023
Topics
- Science and Christian theology
- Human personhood
- Creation and evolution
Readings
- Looy (2004), R [Reading from the course pack] 1-7 (numbers refer to the pages of the course pack and not of the page numbers in the original articles); Polkinghome (1999), R 18-29
- Klein (2000); Gregersen and Van Huyssteen (1998); Conlan (1999); Brown, Murphy & Malony (1998), Ch. 1; Polkinghome (1999), Ch. 6; Tkacz (2000)
- “Person” (2012) R 8-10, Dorenkemper (2003) R 11-14; Ashley (1985), R 15; Rahner (1992), R 16-17; Von Balthasar (1991), R 30-32
- Further recommended reading: VanLeeuwen (1985); Ashley (1985); Lonergan, (1975); Rahner (1975); Amen (2000); Carr (in LaCugna, 1993); John Paul II (1998); Haight (1990); Schindler/Von Balthasar (1983), 135-53; Howard (2013)
- Genesis 1-3, R 33; Barbour (1990), R 34-9; Barbour (1990), R 40 46; Howell (2003), R 47-60; John Paul II (1996), R 61-3
- Further Recommended Reading: Van Huyssteen (2003); Eccles (1999); Polkinghorne (1999), Chs. 2-5; Brown, Murphy & Malony (1998), Chs. 2-3; Benedict XVI 2008 and 2009; Purcell (2012); Schonborn (2016); Flaman (2016)
- Zenit (2002), R 64-6; Roy et al. (1994), R 67; Ashley (1985), 70-1; Gallup (1985), R 72-80; The Associated Press (2002), R 83-4; Barbour (1999), R 85-92
- Further Recommended Reading: Barbour in Russell (1999), pp. 249-80; Ashley (1985), pp. 307-32; Combe (1999), R 68; Eccles (1989); Klein (2000), pp.19-24; Dawkins (1993); Watson (1999); Moltmann (1985); MacIntyre (1999); Flaman (2002); Purcell (2012); World Medical Association (2013)
- Hepper & Shahidullah (1994), R 94-5; Jones (2004), R 99-103; Canadian Medical Association’s Ethics Committee (1991), R 104-6; Ashley & O’Rourke (1997), R 107-14; Taylor (1997), 115-19; Ashley & O’Rourke (1997), R 121-125
- Further Recommended Reading: Hepper & Shahidullah (1994); Eberl (2000); National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States Doctrine Committee (1996); Kluge (1992), pp. 281-8; Levin et al. (1991); and May (2000), Chs. 5.2 and 8; Klein (2000), chapter 3; Maurer (1988), chapters 9 & 10; Shewmon (1998); John Paul II (2000); Jeeves (2004), 11-33; Flaman (1991); Condic 2018; Hanley 2020
- van Lommel et al. (2001), R 126-131; Anderson (1998), R 133-6; Polkinghorne (1999), R 137-8; Ashley (1985), R 139-48
- Further Recommended Reading: See the sources referred to in the above readings; Probst (1999); Cooper (2000); Ratzinger (2007)
- Pinel and Barnes (2018), R 149-58; Parent (1999), R 159; Jeeves (1997), R 160-1; Garcia (2002), R 162-3 (just first column of 163); Ashley & O’Rourke (1997), R 164-76
- Further Recommended Reading: Klein (2000); Cook (2002); Shorto (1999); Sacks (1985); Amen (2000); Horgan (1999); Conlan (1999), chapter 3; Flaman (2004 February); Tanzillo 2013
- Pringle (1992), R 304-12; Eph 5 and commentary, R 313; John Paul II (1988), R 314-15; Ostling et al. (1992), R 316-26; John Paul II (1994), R 327-29; Chervin (1986), R 330-31
- Further Recommended Reading: McAnulty and Burnette (2001), pp. 119-25 and 331- 8; Clark (1980); LaCugna (1993); Schüssler Fiorenza (1989); Chervin (1986); Behr-Sigel and Ware (2000); John Paul II (1988); Flaman (2004 Spring)
- Satinover, R 278-86; Metropolitan Community Church (2004), R 287-90; Gagnon (2002), R 291-301; Catechism of the Catholic Church 302; Morrison (1996), R 303
- Further Recommended Reading: Gagnon (2002), R 389-93, Looy (1995 and 2001); LeVay (1993); McAnulty and Burnette (2001), pp. 119-25, and 331-8; Behr-Sigel and Ware (2000); Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (1986); Harvey (1996); Catholic Medical Association (2004); NARTH (2004); Spitzer (2003); Jones and Yarhouse (2007); Flaman (2011)
- Acts 9, R 177; Sacks, case 20: Hildegard (1985), R 179-81; Saver & Rabin (1997), R 191-201; 1 Cor 12-14, R 204; Aumann (1980), R 206 (begin with “Types of Spirits”)-221 (up to “Revelations”
- Further Recommended Reading: Regush (1995), R 184-90; other parts of Aumann (1980), R 205-23; Ashley (1985), Ch. 13.i-iii; Wiebe (1998); Shorto (1999); Brown, Murphy & Malony (1999), pp. 565-9; Jeeves (2004), 146-164
- Newberg, D’Aquili & Rause (2002), R 224-29; Nelson (1999), R 230-33; Nouwen (1986), R 234-42; St. Francis de Sales (1975), R 243-4
- Further Recommended Reading: James (1902); Polkinghorne (1999), sections of chapter 6; Edwards (1992); Ashbrook and Albright (1997); Russell et al. (1994); Aumann (1980), chapter 4 and chapter 12; Ashley (1985), chapter 11.i.1 and chapter 13.i.; Ramachandran & Blakeslee (1998), chapter 9; Newberg et al. (2000 and 2001)
- Crick (1995), R 245-50; Murphy (1998), R 251-59; Eccles (1994), R 260-68; Vatican II (1965), R 269-72
- Further Recommended Reading: Crick (1995); Jeeves (1997); Wojtyla (1979), R 273- 77; Polkinghorne (1999), chapter 3; Eccles (1994); Jeeves (1997); Ashley (1985), Parts III and IV; Clayton (1999); Gettenplan (1994); Russell (1999); Searle (1995; reviewing Dennett, Edelman, Crick, Penrose & Rosenfield); Damasio (1999); Brown et al. (1998), chapter 5; Ashley (1985), pp. 307-32, Bracken (2004); Green (2004); Crosby (1999 and 2004); Flaman (2008); Reimers 2015; Jensen 2018
- CHRTC 390 Research and Reflection Paper Marking Guide (Paul Flaman) (St. Joseph's College, University of Alberta, Edmonton)
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- 2023-Winter-CHRTC-390-LECTURE-850 ↗2023
- Targeted source-text review: The first Further recommended reading block was unspecified; status corrected. Added topics from explicit module headings. Bibliographic abbreviations remain as supplied by the syllabus; full bibliography is on eClass. Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS.