Renovating Our Images of God: Neuroscience and Biblical Meditation
Journal of Spiritual Formation & Soul Care August 10, 2024 John Jefferson Davis
This paper proposes meditation on selected scriptures as one possible way of addressing a problem identified by the Baylor Religion Survey (2006): the disconnect, for many American Christians, between stated propositional beliefs about a benevolent God, and implicit mental models of God as angry, critical, or distant. Possible causes of this disconnect, and negative consequences for personal...