ABSTRACT
Recent scientific research on the phenomena of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) is summarised, including work on phenomenology, the psychology of perception and inner voices, the part played by culture, and neuroscience. This research is then brought into engagement with recent scholarship on the nature of the relationship between science and theology. In particular, an integrated account is sought, insofar as this is currently possible, of the way in which experiences of hearing the voice of God might be understood both scientifically and theologically as a form of specific divine action. Far from necessitating a reductionistic denial of meaning to experiences of voice hearing, a scientific account of AVHs draws attention to the multilayered significance, including theological significance, of the content of what voices say.
