GodShaped Brain, Timothy R. Jennings M.D.
GodShaped Brain, Timothy R. Jennings M.D.
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God-Shaped Brain
How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life

Author: Timothy R. Jennings M.D.

Narrator: Timothy R. Jennings M.D.

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/31/2013


Synopsis

"Paying attention to the findings of neuroscience is tantamount to paying attention to God's creation. And doing that leads us--with the proper guide--to God's story and his intentions for us. Tim Jennings is that proper guide. An experienced healer with a palpable spirit of humility, he takes the reader past the trite, superficial motifs of easy spirituality that clutter our emotional landscapes and grounds you first in the nature of the God of Scripture. He then further explores that in which God grounded the first humans--the body, and namely, the brain. With compelling stories of challenge and transformation, Dr. Jennings deftly weaves together a deeply thoughtful theology of the living Word with the complex nature of the organ that our heart calls home. Read this book to know God more fully. Read this book to know your brain more fully. And see how knowing God will change your brain--and your life--in ways you never thought possible." (Curt Thompson, M.D., psychiatrist and author of Anatomy of the Soul)"With amazing clarity, Dr. Jennings cuts through the many divergent God constructs to expose the powerful impact these differing views have upon our brains and bodies. Not everything taught about God is healthy--read this book and learn how your belief about God is changing you." (Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D., C.E.D.S., founder, The Center, Inc.)"What makes this book truly remarkable is the artful way Dr. Jennings combines the latest understanding in brain physiology with practical and compelling real-life stories. Although this book is easy to understand for the layperson, the implications Dr. Jennings makes about the design of the human brain, how it can be damaged and how it can be healed are profound. I don't know of another book that so beautifully describes how our mind can be restored back to the way God originally designed it to be." (Brad Cole, M.D., director of neuroscience education, Loma Linda University School of Medicine)"Dr. Tim Jennings has asked the troublesome questions about God's character and answered them in a simple and compelling way that clears away the lies about him so that you find yourself falling deeper in love with him. It's a must-read for every inquiring mind. Once you understand the physiology of the brain and how it responds to love versus selfishness, as explained by Dr. Jennings, you will realize that the choice for love is the only one that will renew the mind and result in good mental health." (Kay Kuzma, Ed.D., president of Family Matters Ministry)"It has been said that our thoughts reflect who we are (Proverbs 23:7). Dr. Jennings challenges us with a synthesis of neurobiology and theology that elaborates on this concept." (Michael Lyles, M.D., Lyles and Crawford Clinical Consulting)"If you are ready to take your relationship with God to the next level, if you are ready to move closer to the source of all truth, if you are ready for an evidence-based approach to knowing God, this book is for you. Dr. Jennings's patient cases and illustrations make complex ideas simple and easy to understand as he powerfully documents, through brain science, how our beliefs about God change us." (Tim Clinton, president, American Association of Christian Counselors)

Reviews

Goodreads review by Seth on October 23, 2015

My first experience with Jennings was outside a campmeeting seminar in Lincoln, NE where the conference president was remarking on his theology. The comments weren’t positive. As time went on I heard of a conflict at Southern University where Jennings taught a Sabbath School class. Allegedly, Jenning......more

Goodreads review by Bob on December 19, 2013

How we think about God shapes everything. Timothy Jennings even argues that this shapes our brains, based on neuroscience research as well as the Bible. His basic argument is that lies and fear trigger parts of the brain that inhibit the reasoning and affectional parts of the pre-frontal cortex. Thi......more

Goodreads review by Linnea on February 04, 2024

Disappointing. The subject of neurology and theology and how they intersect is fascinating but I wish Dr Jennings had spent less time on the theology and more on the neuroscience since he is a psychiatrist not a theologian and I didn't appreciate the sweeping theological claims he felt the need to a......more

Goodreads review by Russ on June 21, 2013

A provocative treatment of the subject of God using scientific and textual research. The author is a certified psychiatrist as well as a thorough exegete of the Biblical text. As a non-scientist I appreciate the level of his explanation of the brain's operation and how what we think triggers neural......more

Goodreads review by Josephine on June 29, 2013

Excellent book describing the transformative power of GOD's law of love in the mind, body, & spirit. As a physician, I treat many people who suffer from depression or anxiety because they believe a lie about the Christian GOD that traps them in their sins of selfishness, fear, guilt, & shame. I pray......more