Faith, Rationality and the Passions

by Sarah Coakley (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444361933
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/01/2012
Series:	Directions in Modern Theology , #5
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

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).

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Faith, Rationality, and the Passions 1

SARAH COAKLEY

1 Reason, Faith, and Meaning 13
CHARLES TAYLOR

2 The Invention of Fanaticism 29
WILLIAM T. CAVANAUGH

3 The Late Arrival of Language: Word, Nature, and the Divine in Plato’s Cratylus 41
CATHERINE PICKSTOCK

4 Evagrius Ponticus and the Eastern Monastic Tradition on the Intellect and the Passions 67
COLUMBA STEWART, O.S.B.

5 Tears and Weeping: An Augustinian View 81
PAUL J. GRIFFITHS

6 The Non-Aristotelian Character of Aquinas’s Ethics: Aquinas on the Passions 91
ELEONORE STUMP

7 Skeptical Detachment or Loving Submission to the Good? Reason, Faith, and the Passions in Descartes 107
JOHN COTTINGHAM

8 Hume Versus Kant: Faith, Reason, and Feeling 117
JOHN MILBANK

9 Kant, the Passions, and the Structure of Moral Motivation 139
JOHN HARE

10 “The Monstrous Centaur”? Joseph De Maistre on Reason, Passion, and Violence 157
DOUGLAS HEDLEY

11 Kierkegaard on Faith, Reason, and Passion 169
MEROLD WESTPHAL

12 Revolting Passions 181
THOMAS DIXON

13 Wittgenstein on Faith, Rationality, and the Passions 197
STEPHEN MULHALL

14 Psychology and the Rationality of Emotion 209
GERALD L. CLORE

15 The Neuroscience of Emotion and Reasoning in Social Contexts: Implications for Moral Theology 223
MICHAEL L. SPEZIO

16 Intellectual Emotions and Religious Emotions 241
PETER GOLDIE

Postscript: What (if Anything) can the Sciences Tell Philosophy and Theology about Faith, Rationality, and the Passions? 251
SARAH COAKLEY

Index 257

Editorial Reviews

"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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