Neil Messer is Professor of Theology at the University of Winchester, UK.

This volume is a great initial exposure to some of the issues involved in ethics, neuroscience, and what a theological response could be ... recommended for upper-division university students in philosophy or theology and graduate students in those disciplines.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Where Science, Theology and Ethics Collide?Chapter 2Pious Primates with Believing Brains: Evolutionary, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Accounts of ReligionChapter 3Selves, Souls and Consciousness: Uncle Charlie Revisited Chapter 3Neuroscience, Moral Judgement and the Theological Suspicion of EthicsChapter 4'Like God, Knowing Good and Evil' The Neuroscience of Morality and the theological suspicion of ethics Chapter 5Freedom, Responsibility, Sin and Grace: 'Mr Puppet' meets St AugustineChapter 6Messing with Our Minds: The Ethics of Technological Interventions in the BrainChapter 7Conclusion: Collision or Creative Meeting?BibliographyIndex

Neil Messer is Professor of Theology at the University of Winchester, UK.

This volume is a great initial exposure to some of the issues involved in ethics, neuroscience, and what a theological response could be ... recommended for upper-division university students in philosophy or theology and graduate students in those disciplines.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Where Science, Theology and Ethics Collide?Chapter 2Pious Primates with Believing Brains: Evolutionary, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Accounts of ReligionChapter 3Selves, Souls and Consciousness: Uncle Charlie Revisited Chapter 3Neuroscience, Moral Judgement and the Theological Suspicion of EthicsChapter 4'Like God, Knowing Good and Evil' The Neuroscience of Morality and the theological suspicion of ethics Chapter 5Freedom, Responsibility, Sin and Grace: 'Mr Puppet' meets St AugustineChapter 6Messing with Our Minds: The Ethics of Technological Interventions in the BrainChapter 7Conclusion: Collision or Creative Meeting?BibliographyIndex