The Jimmy Akin Podcast | Episode 024 (March 3, 2025)

For millennia, people assumed that the heart is the seat of our thoughts and emotions. Even the Bible and Church documents use this language. But more recently, medical science has suggested that the head—not the heart—is where our thoughts and emotions come from.

In this episode, Jimmy Akin looks at how we can understand the heart-centered language in the Bible and Church documents in light of head-centered science. He also throws up several cautions about taking the head-centered science too strictly and why we have reason to think that neither the heart nor the head is the ultimate cause of consciousness.

Timecodes
00:00 – Coming Up
00:29 – Intro
01:03 – 1 The Head-Centered Model
02:03 – 2 The Heart-Centered Model
03:08 – 3 Biblical History
05:02 – 4 Post-Biblical History
06:32 – 5 How the Head-Centered Model Began
07:06 – 6 Heart-Centered Language in Church Documents
08:12 – 7 Heart-Centered Language in the Bible
10:21 – 8 Reasons for Caution
12:28 – Closing/Outro
13:23 - End