Neurotheology

What is Neurotheology?

Definition:

Neurotheology is the scientific study of beliefs. Its primary focus is on how the brain, heart (human physiology), and mind experience, interpret, generate and mediate beliefs.

Objectives:

Establish comprehensive, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding beliefs.

Explain, interpret, and predict the influence of beliefs on thought, feeling, behavior and experience.

Neuro

Human physiology.

Triune Brain: the reptilian brain, mammalian brain, and the neocortex.

Human nervous system: brain, spinal cord, autonomic system, etc.

Heart as a thinking system

Theology