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Faith, Rationality and the Passions

Sarah Coakley (University of Cambridge, UK)

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English
Wiley-Blackwell
07 September 2012
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 difference from classic ideas of passion

Brings together secular science and philosophy of emotion with philosophical theology to seek a new integration of belief, emotion and reason
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Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 230mm,  Width: 155mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   449g
ISBN:   9781444361933
ISBN 10:   1444361937
Series:   Directions in Modern Theology
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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).

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.


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