Description: Rewired begins with the claim that contemporary views of Christian spirituality, particularly in the American evangelical tradition, concentrate too exclusively on the interior and individual nature of spiritual experience. Paul Markham argues that a reexamination of the doctrine of religious conversion is needed within American evangelicalism and finds resources for such a model in the Wesleyan theological tradition and from philosophical and scientific insights into a "nonreductive physicalist" view of human nature. In considering "data" from theology and science, this book represents an integrated work in science and religion.
Brief description: Paul N. Markham is Assistant Professor at Western Kentucky University's Center for Community Partnerships. He also holds adjunct faculty positions in WKU's Department of Philosophy and Religion and at Asbury Theological Seminary.