Epstein Secrets

yond other individuals. In the next chapter, theologian Don Browning also embraces the concept of inclusive fitness and, through the writings of Thomas Aquinas, shows how religion serves the human need for meaning and connection through the ethics they advocate, the congregations they form, the instituti

take laughter as our model, perhaps it means that language gives rise to responses that have a direct effect on our perceptual and motor systems. Sermons may terrify because they create worlds inside of the listener that seem real. We can see and hear torment and imagine the feelings of pain and su

al importance of belief for such investigation, see the essays by W. Clark Gilpin and Tanya Luhrmann in this volume. See Luhrmann in this volume. Thomas Aquinas is one prominent theologian in the Christian tradition who highlights this idea: "creation ... is the very dependency of the created act of being

f clarity, I have slightly rearranged and modernized this quotation. It and all quotations from Edwards's sermon are taken from Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1739- 1742, ed. Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. Hatch, with Kyle P. Farley, The Works of Jonathan Edwards 22 (New Haven: Yale Univers

such investigation, see the essays by W. Clark Gilpin and Tanya Luhrmann in this volume. Pa at Q »e |127 ¢ 1 . . See Luhrmann in this volume. * Thomas Aquinas is one prominent theologian in the Christian tradition who highlights this idea: “creation... is the very dependency of the created act of being upon

ts of clarity, I have slightly rearranged and modernized this quotation. It and all quotations from Edwards’s sermon are taken from Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1739- 1742, ed. Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. Hatch, with Kyle P. Farley, The Works of Jonathan Edwards 22 (New Haven: Yale University