Corporeal Theology: Accommodating Theological Understanding to Embodied Thinkers by Tanton, Tobias, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2023, pp. vii+295, £83.00, hbk

According to this model, cognition would take place primarily in the brain, and would consist of the brain’s processing of abstract symbols. [...]the name ‘sandwich model’, which would refer to these three dimensions or levels: input (perception), processing (within the brain), and output (behaviour...

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Published in:New Blackfriars 2024, Vol.105 (6), p.691-693
Main Author: Moisés Pérez Marcos OP
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Brain
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive science
Embodied cognition
God
Human body
Hypotheses
Theology
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Summary:According to this model, cognition would take place primarily in the brain, and would consist of the brain’s processing of abstract symbols. [...]the name ‘sandwich model’, which would refer to these three dimensions or levels: input (perception), processing (within the brain), and output (behaviour). Like all concepts (or at least a good part of them), the concepts of theology will have their foundation in the human body, and in the way it knows and relates to its environment and to other human beings.
ISSN:0028-4289
1741-2005
DOI:10.1017/nbf.2024.43