Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding: Integrating Perception, Conception and FeelingMark Wynn argues that the landscape of philosophical theology looks rather different from the perspective of a re-conceived theory of emotion. In matters of religion, we do not need to opt for objective content over emotional form or vice versa. On the contrary, these strategies are mistaken at root, since form and content are not separable in this instance. Wynn uses this perspective to forge a distinctive approach to a range of established topics in philosophy of religion, notably: religious experience; the problem of evil; the relationship of religion and ethics, and religion and art; and in general, the connection of 'feeling' to doctrine and tradition. |
Contents
Religious experience and the perception of value | 1 |
Love repentance and the moral life | 30 |
Finding and making value in the world | 59 |
philosophical psychological | 89 |
Emotional feeling and religious understanding | 123 |
Representation in art and religion | 149 |
The religious critique of feeling | 179 |
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