"In June of 1998 the fourth conference in a series cosponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences was held in Pasierbiec, Poland. Its purpose was to explore relations between the cognitive neurosciences and Christian theology. Most of the essays in this volume were discussed and debated there, and then revised for publication." -- Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Restoring the human person: New Testament voices for a wholistic and social anthropology / Joel B. Green -- The modern philosophy of self in recent theology / Fergus Kerr -- Emotions: how I've looked for them in the brain / Joseph E. LeDoux -- The uniquely human capacity for language communication: from POPE to [po:p] in half a second / Peter Hagoort -- The cognitive way to action / Marc Jeannerod -- A neuroscientific perspective on human sociality / Leslie A. Brothers -- Towards a neuroscience of the person / Michael A. Arbib -- Emotions: a view through the brain / Joseph E. LeDoux --Are there limits to the naturalization of mental states? / Marc Jeannerod -- The mind-brain problem, the laws of nature, and constitutive relationships / William R. Stoeger -- Supervenience and the downward efficacy of the mental: a nonreductive physicalist account of human action / Nancey Murphy -- Mind matters: physicalism and the autonomy of the person / Theo C. Meyering -- Neuroscience, the person, and God: an emergentist account / Philip Clayton -- The sound of sheer silence: how does God communicate with humanity? / Arthur Peacocke -- Neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and human nature: theological and philosophical reflections / Ian G. Barbour -- The soul and neuroscience: possibilities for divine action / Stephen Happel -- Resurrection of the very embodied soul? / Ted Peters -- Cognitive neuroscience and religious consciousness / Fraser Watts -- A neuropsychological-semiotic model of religious experiences / Wesley J. Wildman & Leslie A. Brothers -- Crusoe's brain: of solitude and society / Michael A. Arbib -- Intimations of transcendence: relations of the mind and God / George F.R. Ellis.