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SEYBOLD PUBLISHES BOOK ON SCIENCE, RELIGION |
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February 13, 2008
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Dr. Kevin Seybold, Grove City College professor and chair of the psychology department, is the author of a new book released by Ashgate Publishing. “Explorations in Neuroscience, Psychology and Religion” is part of the Ashgate Science and Religion Series and is now available on Amazon.com and in the Grove City College Bookstore.
Seybold’s book discusses progress made since the 1990s in understanding human behavior, especially in relation to religion. He concludes science and religion are not contradictory or in conflict, but do complement each other.
“I tried to find a topic that I could study that would enable me to integrate my Christian faith with my psychology,” Seybold said. “Sometimes people get concerned that something out of neuroscience or psychology is inconsistent with what scripture says. I’m hoping to demonstrate and illustrate in a book that that’s just not necessarily the case.”
Seybold said he wrote the book for people who do not necessarily have a background in psychology, who “read in ‘Newsweek’ or in the local newspaper or see something on TV that makes them wonder what is happening in psychology, neuroscience. … [The book is] meant to be a source for them to dig a little deeper into some of these findings that neuroscientists are coming out with that seem to have something to say about religion and theology.”
A review by theologian Jennifer Baldwin in the e-publication “Global Spiral” from the Metanexus Institute – an international network of scholars – said that Seybold “provides a helpful introduction to the realms of neuroscience, psychology, religion, and religion and science.”
Seybold said he hopes readers will take away “that neuroscience, psychology, related disciplines like that, are ways of studying what God has disclosed or revealed through his natural creation … and that the findings from those disciplines need not be considered threatening to Christians.”
The Ashgate Science and Religion Series presents interdisciplinary study, research and debate in science and religion. The series explores the philosophical relations between the physical and social sciences and religious belief.
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