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Title The spirit, the affections, and the Christian tradition / edited by Dale M. Coulter and Amos Yong
Published Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 313 pages)
Contents Introduction: The language of affectivity and the Christian life / Dale M. Coulter -- Blessed passion of love : the affections, the church fathers, and the Christian life / Robert Louis Wilken -- Redeeming the affections : deconstructing Augustine's critique of theater / James K.A. Smith -- The beauty of holiness : deification of the passions in the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom / Bradley Nassif -- Holy tears : a neglected aspect of early Christian spirituality in contemporary context / Michael J. McClymond -- The transformative role of emotion in the Middle Ages : deliverance from lukewarm affections / Elizabeth A. Dreyer -- Aquinas on sanctifying the affections : participating in the life of the Spirit / Craig A. Boyd -- Letting go of detachment : Eckhart's "Gelassenheit" and the immanence of the Spirit / Sharon L. Putt -- The bondage of the affections : willing, feeling, and desiring in Luther's theology, 1513-1525 / Simeon Zahl -- "Movements of the heart" : Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) on affections / Klaas Bom -- But to know it as we shou'd do : enthusiasm, historicizing of the charismata, and cessationism in Enlightenment England / Paul C.H. Lim -- Orthokardia : John Wesley's grammar of the Holy Spirit / Gregory S. Clapper -- Jonathan Edwards on the affections and the Spirit / Gerald R. McDermott -- Conclusion: The affective Spirit and historiographical revitalization in the Christian theological tradition / Amos Yong
Summary This book explores the role of emotions and affections in the Christian tradition from historical and theological perspectives, especially related to the work of the Holy Spirit. Although historians and scholars from a range of traditions--including Wesleyan, Pentecostal, and Pietist--have engaged these issues, there has yet to be a sustained examination of the role of emotions and affectivity across the Christian tradition. By retrieving the complex discussion about affectivity in Christian tradition and bringing its many voices into dialogue within a contemporary ecumenical context, the contributors also point toward a number of new research trajectories. The essays underscore the need to understand the shift in Western views of emotion that began in the late eighteenth century. They also explore in detail the vocabulary of affectivity as it has developed in the Christian tradition. As part of this development, the contributors reveal the importance of pneumatology in Western as well as Eastern Christianity, calling into question the idea of a pneumatological deficit advanced by some constructive theologians and addressing the relationship between affectivity and the pedagogical strategies that enable persons to cooperate with the work of grace in the soul. Finally, several essays explore the relationship between the erotic, the ecstatic, and affectivity in religious belief. This volume will interest scholars and students of historical theology, of emotions in theology, and of Christian renewal or charismatic movements. (Publisher)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Emotions -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- General.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Pneumatology.
Emotions -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines
Form Electronic book
Author Coulter, Dale M. (Dale Michael), 1970- editor.
LC no. 2016033475
ISBN 9780268100063
0268100063
9780268100070
0268100071