Faith, Rationality and the Passions

Sarah Coakley editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:7th Sep '12

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Faith, Rationality and the Passions cover

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

"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

ISBN: 9781444361933

Dimensions: 230mm x 155mm x 13mm

Weight: 449g

272 pages