Synopses & Reviews
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
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).
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