The God-Shaped Brain: How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life Audio CD – Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
Author: Visit ‘s Timothy R. Jennings Page ID: 1610458362
Review
“Paying attention to the findings of neuroscience is tantamount to paying attention to God’s creation. And doing that leads uswith 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 healthyread 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 minds can be restored back to the way God originally designed them 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)
–This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Audio CDPublisher: christianaudio; Unabridged edition (December 31, 2013)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1610458362ISBN-13: 978-1610458368 Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 0.6 x 5.4 inches Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #1,300,716 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1108 in Books > Books on CD > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity #1914 in Books > Medical Books > Psychology > Neuropsychology #2293 in Books > Books on CD > Religion & Spirituality > General
When I first ‘read’ the articulate manner in which Dr. Jennings credibly presented evidences and definitions that turned my 25 years of traditional christian belief upside down, you can imagine the incredible dissonance I experienced at such a paradigm shift. I could have hardened my heart and walked away in contempt of such "heresy," but I chose, instead, to weight the evidence for myself, examine what he presented, and come and reason it out with God. This process may take a few months or a few years as Holy Spirit rewires your brain and rids you of all the embedded traditional teachings you were told to believe about who God is, but if you choose to have an open, teachable mind, you will not believe the change in the way you treat others and how your relationship with God and others will deepen. Love will explode within you and you will not be able to stop it from spilling out to those around you. When you understand the way the brain works, neuro-chemically and at the cellular level, and how brain science reveals how even just our thoughts change us physically, you will look at your life’s choices, actions, and motivations in a whole new light and see how humanity’s sin-infection has damaged us beyond science’s and religion’s ability to fix. Jennings doesn’t leave you hanging there in utter hopelessness! He presents a picture of God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit who are ALL working TOGETHER to FIX and HEAL your mind BACK to the way They designed it to work! It really is that simple.
I hope this book turns mainstream Christendom upside down, because it certainly caused me to re-evaluate everything I was taught about God, his wrath, anger, vengeance, punishments, hell-fire, truth, love, and freedom.
There is a lot of good in this book, and for that I feel that I am in Dr. Timothy Jennings’s debt. However, I would have liked to find the good parts in a form that I could recommend even to the undiscerning reader. I think we really need more understanding of God as the one who goes out of his way to seek us and entice us (if you will) into re-establishing a relationship with him, a God who is essentially and passionately on our side, definitely not wanting to punish anyone or to see them perish ultimately. You will find this God in this book, but the book could have been so much better!
The style of the book is not what I could call dispassionate exposition. And so one wonders about its objectivity. It is highly rhetorical, even loaded with rhetorical questions which the Dr. Jennings obviously assumes that we will eagerly answer his way. Some of these I had to study for a while before I was sure which way he DID want me to answer them. I can understand why he would be enthusiastic over his topic, but he could have lowered the heat and been more effective.
Odd, isn’t it, that a book so heavy in theological themes should be "praised" exclusively by people in psychiatry and related professions? Couldn’t even one Bible scholar or recognized theologian be found who might have recommended this book to us? One problem this could have caused Dr. Jennings is that the discussion of how God didn’t kill anyone in the OT but simply laid them down to sleep in their graves and only does otherwise (?) since the resurrection of Jesus Christ is not only innovative but very unlikely to stand up under examination.
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