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The Impassioned Life

Reason and Emotion in the Christian Tradition
  • ISBN-13: 9781506410739
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Samuel M. Powell
  • Price: AUD $171.00
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  • Local release date: 01/01/2016
  • Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 456 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Christian theology [HRCM]
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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 equated the image of God with rationality and wondered whether emotion is an essential feature of human nature; however, the tradition has also affirmed the value of emotions such as love and compassion and has sometimes asserted the value of so-called negative emotions such as anger. The question, then, is whether the tradition's pastoral insight into the importance of moderation and control of the emotions requires us to think dualistically about soul (identified with reason) and body (the seat of emotions). To answer this question, The Impassioned Life explores the vital resources of the Christian theological tradition and also of contemporary scientific and psychological research in order to achieve a more adequate theological understanding of the emotions and reason.
Samuel M. Powell is professor of philosophy and religion at Point Lorna Nazarene University in San Diego, California. He is author of Discovering Our Christian Faith (2008), A Theology of Christian Spirituality (2005), Participating in God: Trinity and Creation (Fortress Press, 2003), and The Trinity in German Thought (2000).
1. Reason and Emotion in Classical Philosophy; 2. The New Testament and Some Jewish Antecedents; 3. Patristic Theology; 4. Emotion and Reason in the Modern World; 5. Emotion from a Scientific Perspective; 6. Emotion and Human Morality; 7. Emotion and Cognition; 8. The Ecclesial Therapy of Emotion; 9. Reason, Emotion, and Theology.
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