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For centuries, science and religion have been on the opposite sides of the debate about the moral nature of human beings. Combining the latest research in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and behavioral science, this book sheds a new light on the vision of morality as expressed by John Duns Scotus, showing how science and religion can give complementary views of morality..

Is the call to spirituality embedded in human biology? Authors Nancy K. Morrison and Sally K. Severino draw on cutting-edge research, including the recent discovery of brain "mirror neurons" and the elucidation of the physiology of social affiliation and attachment, to make a bold case that we are, in fact, biologically wired to seek oneness with the divine. They have termed this innate urge "sacred Desire."In their new book on the subject, ,em&Sacred Desire: Growing in Compassionate Living, Morrison and Severino, both highly esteemed academic psychiatrists, draw on neuroph