TY - T1 - Cognitive Science in the Study of Early Christianity : Why It Is Helpful – and How? SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/228686 T3 - A1 - Uro, Risto A2 - PB - Y1 - 2017 LA - eng AB - In recent years, a number of New Testament and early Christian scholars have begun to use cognitive science approaches in their work. In this paper, I situate those efforts within the larger framework of the changing humanities, and the increased interest among humanistic scholars and social scientists in drawing on the growing body of knowledge on the cognitive and evolutionary roots of human thinking and behaviour. I also suggest how cognitive historiography can be helpful in shedding new ligh... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 614 Theology; New Testament Studies; Cognitive Science of Religion; Religious Studies; John the Baptist; Religion; Memory; Anthropology N1 - PP - ER -