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Changing your Mind: The Bible, the Brain, and Spiritual Growth

Changing your Mind: The Bible, the Brain, and Spiritual Growth


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This book takes you on a journey that unpacks and demystifies what spiritual growth is and how it unfolds. The aim is to set you on your own path toward genuine, personal spiritual transformation. The book provides all the tools you need - biblical, scientific, and practical - so that you can develop your own pathway for spiritual growth. What is unique about Victor Copan's approach to spiritual growth is that he explores recent findings of brain research as well as scientific research on habit formation and brings them into conversation with the process of spiritual formation. Research on the brain and on habit formation has uncovered significant insights about the process and dynamics of human transformation that can be fruitfully incorporated into our own pursuit of spiritual transformation. Tapping into this research allows us to work in concert with how God designed humans to function - body, soul, and spirit.

Table of Contents:
List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 Spirituality: What It Is and What It Isn't PART 1: Biblical Foundations of Spiritual Formation 2 The Biblical Backdrop of Spiritual Formation 3 The Goal of Spiritual Formation, Part 1: Overview 4 An Aside: But Can We Really Become Like Christ? 5 The Goal of Spiritual Formation, Part 2: Getting Specific 6 The Dynamics of Spiritual Formation 7 The Process of Spiritual Formation PART 2: Brain Research, the Bible, and Spiritual Formation 8 Insights for Spiritual Formation from Brain Research 9 The Bible and Neuroscience: Friends or Foes? PART 3: Changing From the Inside Out 10 The Dimensions of Human Life: An Overview 11 Our Heart (Will and Spirit) 12 Our Thoughts 13 Our Feelings 14 Our Bodies 15 Our Relationships PART 4: Developing Our Own Spiritual Formation Plan 16 Spiritual Formation is Habit-Forming 17 Putting It All Together: Laying Out a Process for Spiritual Growth A Closing Word Appendix: Sample Action Steps for the Personal Spiritual Growth Plan Bibliography Name/Subject Index Scripture Index

About the Author :
Victor Copan is chair of the Ministry Leadership Studies Department as well as Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida. He is the author of Saint Paul as Spiritual Director (2001).

Review :
"Here's a lovely book that makes it plain that no one has to stay stuck. No one has to say, 'That's me, like it or lump it.' Copan's blend of biblical theology and neurological science gives hope that God has hardwired us for transformation. Changing Your Mind is a path to becoming more like Jesus." - Adele Calhoun, author of The Spiritual Disciplines Handbook and co-pastor, Redeemer Community Church, Massachusetts "For thoughtful Christians, discoveries in neuroscience and psychology, at times, pose profound questions. Victor Copan demonstrates convincingly how our understanding of spirituality may be mutually enriched through inputs from the distinctive domains of Scripture, psychology, and neuroscience. A must-read for all eager to grow in their daily Christian walk and to have a secure base for the hope that is in them." - Malcolm Jeeves, former editor-in-chief, Neuropsychologia; past president, the Royal Society of Edinburgh "What makes Changing your Mind exceptional is that Copan not only explores scientific research on habit formation but also engages with the advances made in brain research since the 'nineties. This interface, then, between spirituality, psychology, and neuro-science marks out Copan's book as a must-read for spiritual directors as well as anyone who seeks to develop their spiritual life. ... So many books on spiritual development can be so dense that it is difficult to see the wood for the trees. Changing your Mind looks at the subject holistically and is a model of clarity." - Luke Penkett, The Heythrop Journal, Volume 58, Issue 5, Sept 2017


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780718894665
  • Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Lutterworth Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 310
  • Weight: 459 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0718894669
  • Publisher Date: 29 Dec 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Bible, the Brain, and Spiritual Growth
  • Width: 153 mm


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