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The transformation of neurobiological shame and application to the IgnatianSpiritual Exercises

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This article explores the theory that shame is an evolutionary neurobiological adaptation for self-development, and for social and transcendent relational development, and is so described in the Scriptural second creation narrative. The author suggests that shame is foundationally transformed in the passion narrative. Pastoral utility of this thesis in the direction of theSpiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola is suggested.

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  1. the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, USA

    Dana Kramer-Rolls (graduate student in systematic theology)

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Kramer-Rolls, D. The transformation of neurobiological shame and application to the IgnatianSpiritual Exercises . Pastoral Psychol 42, 415–425 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01757443

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