A Starter Book List for Neuroscience-Informed Spiritual Formation
Here are my beginning recommendations for starting your own exploration of relational neuroscience and spiritual formation.
For those interested in this integration of relational neuroscience and spiritual formation, here are some beginning lists.
I’ll cover
Books that Integrate Both
Beginning Neuroscience Book
Advanced Neuroscience Books
Beginning Spiritual Formation Books
Advanced Spiritual Formation Books
Books that integrate both
Does God Really Like Me? Discovering the God Who Wants to Be With Us - Cyd and Geoff Holsclaw (a “sneaky” biblical theology of God’s presence)
The Connected Life: The Art and Science of Relational Spirituality - Todd Hall
Renovated: God, Dallas Willard, and the Church That Transforms- Jim Wilder
The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation - Jim Wilder and Michel Hendricks
Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself) - David Zahl
Beginning Neuroscience Book
Seven and a Half Lessons on the Brain - Lisa Feldman Barrett
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation - Daniel Siegel
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help you Find—and Keep—Love - Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
Advanced Neuroscience Books
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture - Gabor Maté
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are - Daniel Siegel
Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory - Deb Dana
Beginning Spiritual Formation Books
Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation - Robert Mulholland
Surrender to Love: Discovering the Heart of Christian Spirituality - David Benner
Finding Freedom in Constraint: Reimagining Spiritual Disciplines as a Communal Way of Life - Jared Patrick Boyd
Advanced Spiritual Formation Books
A Course in Desert Spirituality - Thomas Merton
The Critical Journey: Stages in the Life of Faith - Hagberg and Guelich
A Guide to Christian Spiritual Formation - Evan Howard
Desert Christians: An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism - William Harmless
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Great list! Would love to hear what you think of Joel Green's Body, Soul, and Human Life. Here's my blurb: https://inchristus.substack.com/p/body-soul-and-human-life-the-nature
You are going to LOVE this sermon
Renewal of the Mind
God & The Whole Person
March 19, 2023 • John Mark Comer
https://bridgetown.church/teachings/god-the-whole-person/mind-pt-2