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Faith, Rationality and the Passions
Sarah Coakley
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Description for Faith, Rationality and the Passions
Paperback. Faith, Rationality and the Passions presents a fresh and original examination of the relation of religious faith, philosophical rationality and the passions. Contributions see leading scholars refute the widely-held belief that religious Enlightenment forced passion and reason apart. Editor(s): Coakley, Sarah. Series: Directions in Modern Theology. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 444.
Faith, Rationality and the Passions presents a fresh and original examination of the relation of religious faith, philosophical rationality and the passions. Contributions see leading scholars refute the widely-held belief that religious Enlightenment forced passion and reason apart.
Faith, Rationality and the Passions presents a fresh and original examination of the relation of religious faith, philosophical rationality and the passions. Contributions see leading scholars refute the widely-held belief that religious Enlightenment forced passion and reason apart.
- Leading Philosophical experts offer new research on the relation of faith, reason and the passions in classic and Enlightenment figures
- Overturns the widely-held presumption that the Enlightenment was responsible for creating a gulf between reason and passion
- Presents original and innovative research on the importance of the late-19th century creation of the category of ‘emotion’, and its striking ... Read more
- Brings together secular science and philosophy of emotion with philosophical theology to seek a new integration of belief, emotion and reason
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
Series
Directions in Modern Theology
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444361933
SKU
V9781444361933
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99-50
About Sarah Coakley
Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, and was previously Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. She is a systematic theologian and philosopher of religion with wide interdisciplinary interests. Her previous publications include Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender (Wiley-Blackwell, 2002), Re-Thinking Gregory of Nyssa (editor, Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), Pain and Its Transformations: ... Read more
Reviews for Faith, Rationality and the Passions
"Essays creatively experiment with understanding the relationships among faith, rationality, and emotion... the volume encourages intriguing perspectives on 'the passions', showing that engaging the emotions does not necessarily lead to destruction of reason or distortion of religious rationality." —Mara Brecht, The Heythorp Journal LVIII (2017), pp. 816-860