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The Impassioned Life : Reason and Emotion in the Christian Tradition /

The Impassioned Life argues that theology's task today is to rethink the nature of the emotions and their relation to human reason. Such rethinking is necessary because the Christian tradition feels ambivalently about the emotions. Armed with a commitment to body-soul dualism, many writers have...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Powell, Samuel M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reason and emotion in classical philosophy
  • The New Testament and some Jewish antecedents
  • Patristic theology
  • Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine
  • Emotion and reason in the modern world
  • Emotion from a scientific perspective
  • Emotion and human morality
  • Emotion and cognition
  • The ecclesial therapy of emotion
  • Reason, emotion, and theology