Workshop of Being: Religious Affections and their Pragmatic Value in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards and William James

The Workshop of Being brings into conversation the thought of Jonathan Edwards and William James on the pragmatic value of religious experience. Edwards and James share the desire to trace the sacred as it shapes the American experiment. Informed by the tradition of Protestant heart piety and the psychology of religious affections, these thinkers assess the nature of creative freedom in the face of theological and scientific forms of determinism current in their respective cultural contexts...