Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 268
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅛
978-1-9787-0396-4 • Hardback • September 2018 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
978-1-9787-0397-1 • eBook • September 2018 • $122.50 • (£95.00)
Erin Kidd is assistant professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at St. John's University.
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht is the director of the Pastoral Institute at the University of the Incarnate Word.
Foreword
Robert Masson
Chapter One: An Introduction to Conceptual Mapping
Erin Kidd & Jakob Karl Rinderknecht
Chapter Two: The Embodied Mind and How to Pray With One
Erin Kidd
Chapter Three: Homo Symbolicus: Cognition and Communion
Julia Feder
Chapter Four: Conceptual Blending, Human Distinctiveness, and the Image of God
Jason P. Roberts
Chapter Five: Kenosis as a Pauline Metaphor within a Double-scope Blend
Christopher M. Hadley
Chapter Six: Eucharistic Spirituality and Metaphoric Asymmetry
Stephen R. Shaver
Chapter Seven: Conceptual Mapping and Reception in Ecumenical Theology
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht
Chapter Eight: My Good, Your Good, and the Good: Conceptual Mapping and Altruism
Adam Willows
Chapter Nine: Beyond ‘Cannot Be Resolved’: Considering Ways Forward for Frozen Embryos
Kathryn Lilla Cox
I enjoyed reading Putting God on the Map and consider it essential for getting a handle on some “first principles” of theology . . . Putting God on the Map is exemplary theological prolegomena and a genuine example of how interdisciplinary studies can be beneficial. — Reading Religion
Kidd and Rinderknecht have assembled an excellent collection of essays that brings insights from the cognitive sciences to bear on key loci in Christian theology and theological anthropology. Together, these essays shed important new light on how distinctive aspects of human embodiment and our capacities for symbolic thinking can shape our ideas about God, our engagement with God, and our understanding of humanity’s relationship to God. The book is engaging and accessible; and, focusing as it does on issues at the intersection of philosophy, theology, and the cognitive sciences, it is also richly interdisciplinary.
— Michael Rea, University of Notre Dame
Cognitive linguistics offers incredibly helpful tools to understand what is going on in theological debates. This book nicely adds to the growing list of people using conceptual blending to help Christians better understand, and perhaps even resolve, debates ranging from the Eucharist to frozen embryos.— John Sanders, Hendrix College