This post may give you a headache. It may cause you distress. But think through this with me and read the entire post before you throw something against the way or call me a liberal.
In the past two months, I noted that both our reality and our theology are constructed by our experiences. I have also noted that we are primarily emotional people, not rational people. I want to expand on that thought and talk about experiential theology.
As I said in a previous post,
The way our mind receives input from an external context has been redefined in recent years. Prior to the last decade, it was thought that emotions came after the processing of conscious thought.(1) However, research now demonstrates that information obtained from the senses travels in a parallel mode. Sensory information travels first to the emotional center of the brain, the amygdala, before a second signal is sent to the neocortex, which handles the cognitive processing functions. What this second route indicates “is the likelihood that much of cognition…is merely rationalization to make unconscious emotional response acceptable to the conscious mind.” (2)
