Nancey Murphy, Ph.D. 
Senior Professor of Christian Philosophy

Fuller Tehological Seminary in Pasadena, CA

Dr. Murphy looks at theological views of human nature and at critical points in history when science influenced these views. The major emphasis will be to illustrate the many ways neuroscience is calling body-soul or body-mind dualism into question, and promoting a physicalist account - that is, describing humans as purely physical organisms. However, the claim that we are composed of matter must not be taken to imply that higher human faculties are simply determined by material laws. 

Sponsored by the Institute for Religion and Science