Candy Brown gave a presentation for the Galileo Commission Summit IV, launching the book Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased: Psychological, Scientific and Theological Perspectives, edited by Thomas G. Plante and Gary E. Schwartz; Brown’s chapter and presentation was on “Christian Perspectives on Praying for Deliverance from Demons.”
The conference organizers assembled a multidisciplinary team of scholars with unique expertise and qualifications to address the topic of human interaction with the divine, the sacred, and the deceased examining psychological, scientific, and theological perspectives. Then, they divided the contributions into four major sections that include (1) the personal experience, (2) theological consideration, (3) medical, technological, and scientific considerations, and finally (4) psychological considerations. Scholars who specialize in theology, psychology, medicine, neuroscience, and ethics were included thus providing a multidisciplinary, well-rounded, and grounded perspective on human interaction with the divine, the sacred, and the deceased in order to these issues and questions from various informed academic and applied lenses along with diverse religious and spiritual backgrounds as well.
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