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AN INTEGRATION OFBIBLICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGYAND ITS IMPLICATIONS FORCHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND DISCIPLESHIPBYMICHAEL RUSSELL, D.Min.© 2002There are two ways we can distort God’s rolein the ministry of Christian education.The first is to discount it, and to see Christian growthas simply a natural process.The second is to make it a magical thing,demanding that God work against all

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Chapter Three GENERAL REVELATION REGARDING HUMAN NEUROLOGY AND A COMPATIBLE MODEL OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY The purpose of this chapter is to locate and embed immaterial experience and existence in the physical body, that is, in the human brain. The indivisible, monistic model presented in the preceding chapter sought to demonstrate biblically that each person is a unified whole, not intended to

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Chapter Four BIBLE- AND BRAIN-BASED LEARNING FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND DISCIPLESHIP The preceding arguments for a view of biblical anthropology that conceptualizes human beings as monistic rather than bi- or tripartite, and also locates human spiritual and “soulish” experience in the physical body, have been preparatory for the present chapter. This chapter seeks to describe a brain-based

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Chapter Five CONCLUSION This paper has demonstrated several important issues and facts critical to effective Christian education and discipleship. First, it has argued that the debate over an integration of theology and psychology has been misdirected: the two do not need to be blended but rather relegated to their proper places. The hard science of neurology is a supportive discipline that

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