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: The Interface of Biology and Culture (co-edited with Kay Shelemay, 2007) and Re-Thinking Dinoysius the Areopagite (co-edited, with Charles Stang, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
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.