Anthony Freeman reviews scientific and psychological accounts of mystical experience, from the ‘God helmet’ and brain scans to transpersonal psychology and Jorge Ferrer’s critique. He concludes that mystical experience is in effect what the mystic...
Anthony Freeman suggests that, as consciousness emerges from the brain, God is a high-level emergent property of human consciousness, drawing on Rahner, Schleiermacher and the idea of God as a story’s character.
Anthony Freeman reviews Don Cupitt’s The Old Creed and the New, noting its non-realist new creed, solar living, and Cupitt’s unresolved ties to Christianity and the Church of England.
Anthony Freeman traces the history of the self from the Bible and Plato through Aquinas and Descartes to current research on minimal and narrative selves, asking what survives of the soul in a scientific age.
Anthony Freeman traces the history of the soul from Hebrew, Greek and Aquinas to Descartes and Searle, and argues that personhood, human and divine, is best understood as an emergent property of the physical.
Anthony Freeman presents Christian Humanism: starting from Jesus rather than God, he reads Christ’s divinity as an emergent property of his humanity, using mind-body emergence theory and Schleiermacher and Rahner.
Anthony Freeman proposes Christian humanism, reading Christ’s divinity as an emergent property of his humanity, by analogy with emergence theories of mind, with support from Schleiermacher and Rahner.
Excerpts from the first ten issues of Sea of Faith magazine (1990-92): how the Network began, early debates over creeds and radical Christianity, the founding of the magazine, a members’ survey, and contributions on worship,...
Anthony Freeman reviews Daphne Hampson’s After Christianity, which argues from a feminist standpoint that Christianity is both immoral and untrue. He praises her critique of the Trinity but faults her opening chapters and her inconsistencies.
Anthony Freeman reviews John Polkinghorne’s Belief in God in an Age of Science, disputing Polkinghorne’s critical realism and the parallel between quantum duality and the two natures of Christ, and arguing for a constructive view...
