In the last decades, contemporary urbanism in global South has meant large urban transformations, tall architecture landmarks, and fierce city competition. However, cities their planners are now confronting an ethical dilemma: how to grow compete while caring for disastrous impacts on Earth human health caused by mass extraction, processing, consumption of resources linked urbanization. our art...

Fides Quaerens Corporalitatem: Perspectives on liturgical embodiment In the light of a number of paradigm shifts that have taken place in practical theological methodology, this article proposes an integrative approach that takes the fundamental role of embodiment into account. A brief discussion of the theological understanding of embodiment is followed by a reflection on certain liturgical im...

S for University Faculty for Life Conference June 1 & 2, 2012 BYU Law School The Case for After-Birth Abortion in the Journal of Medical Ethics: A Critique Francis J. Beckwith, MJS, PhD Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies (Department of Philosophy) Resident Scholar (Institute for the Studies of Religion) Baylor University In February 2012 the prestigious Journal of Medical Ethics p...

Embodiment research has demonstrated that cognition is grounded in bodily interactions with the environment and that abstract concepts are tied to the body’s sensory and motor systems. Building upon this embodiment perspective and advancing our understanding, we discuss the extension of embodied cultural cognition. We propose that some associations between bodily experiences and abstract concep...

Spirituality has mostly been studied in psychology as implied in the process of overcoming adversity, being triggered by negative experiences, and providing positive outcomes. By reversing this pathway, we investigated whether spirituality may also be triggered by selftranscendent positive emotions, which are elicited by stimuli appraised as demonstrating higher good and beauty. In two studies,...

In an age of unprecedented scientific achievement, I argue that the neurosciences are poised to transform our perceptions about life on earth, and that collaboration is needed to exploit a vast body of knowledge for humanity’s benefit. The scientific method distinguishes science from the humanities and religion. It has evolved into a professional, specialized culture with a common language that...

Inference has long been the concern of assorted disciplines that vary in focus, rationale, apparatus, terminology, and achievement. There would appear an inverse proportion between the range and the orderliness of the knowledge accumulated by the various disciplines. Literary study tends to the first extreme, logic and its heritage in modern pragmatics to the second, either imbalance precluding...