Thinking through feeling : God, emotion, and passibility / Anastasia Philippa Scrutton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scrutton, Anastasia Philippa.

Series:

Continuum studies in philosophy of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions (Philosophy).

Emotions--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Emotions.

Physical Description:

227 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, [2011]

Summary:

Contemporary debates on God's emotionality are divided between two extremes. Impassibilists deny God's emotionality on the basis of God's omniscience, omnipotence and incorporeality. Passibilists seem to break with tradition by affirming divine emotionality, often focusing on the idea that God suffers with us.

Contemporary philosophy of emotion reflects this divide. Some philosophers argue that emotions are voluntary and intelligent mental events, making them potentially compatible with omniscience and omnipotence. Others claim that emotions are involuntary and basically physiological, rendering them inconsistent with traditional divine attributes.

Thinking Through Feeling: God, Emotion and Passibility creates a three-way conversation between the debates in theology, contemporary philosophy of emotion, and pre-modern (particularly Augustinian and Thomist) conceptions of human affective experience. It also provides an exploration of the intelligence and value of the emotions of compassion, anger and jealousy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Historical and contemporary perspectives on emotion and impassibility

Passiones and affectiones in Augustine and Aquinas

Summary of chapters one and two

Emotion, intelligence, and divine omniscience

Compassion

Anger

Jealousy

Overview of chapters three to six

Emotion, will, and divine omnipotence

Emotion, the body, and divine incorporeality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441162755

1441162755

OCLC:

657603003