Book description
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.
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Leading Philosophical experts offer new research on the
relation of faith, reason and the passions in classic and
Enlightenment figures
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Overturns the widely-held presumption that the Enlightenment
was responsible for creating a gulf between reason and passion
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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
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Brings together secular science and philosophy of emotion with
philosophical theology to seek a new integration of belief,
emotion and reason
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).
