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“ÁLL TRÁDES, THEIR GEAR AND TACKLE AND TRIM”: THEOLOGY, COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, AND PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY IN TRANSVERSAL DIALOGUE
Author(s) -
Bennett Pat
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/zygo.12497
Subject(s) - transversal (combinatorics) , set (abstract data type) , psychoneuroimmunology , cognition , psychology , heuristic , cognitive science , epistemology , computer science , neuroscience , philosophy , medicine , immune system , mathematical analysis , mathematics , immunology , programming language
This third of three articles outlining a different approach to science/religion dialogue generally and to engagement between theology and the neurosciences specifically, gives a brief account of the model in practice. It begins by introducing the question to be investigated—whether the experience of relational connection can affect health outcomes by directly moderating immune function. Then, employing the same threefold heuristic of encounter, exchange, and expression used previously, it discusses how the transversal model set out in these articles has been used to investigate this question and to develop a theoretical physiological model for the proposed link between relationality and health.