The spiritual senses : perceiving God in Western Christianity / [edited by] Paul L. Gavrilyuk and Sarah Coakley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gavrilyuk, Paul L., editor.

Coakley, Sarah, 1951- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senses and sensation--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Senses and sensation.

God (Christianity)--Knowableness.

God (Christianity).

Theological anthropology--Christianity.

Theological anthropology.

God (Christianity)--History of doctrines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 316 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Is it possible to see, hear, touch, smell and taste God? How do we understand the biblical promise that the 'pure in heart' will 'see God'? Christian thinkers as diverse as Origen of Alexandria, Bonaventure, Jonathan Edwards and Hans Urs von Balthasar have all approached these questions in distinctive ways by appealing to the concept of the 'spiritual senses'. In focusing on the Christian tradition of the 'spiritual senses', this book discusses how these senses relate to the physical senses and the body, and analyzes their relationship to mind, heart, emotions, will, desire and judgement. The contributors illuminate the different ways in which classic Christian authors have treated this topic, and indicate the epistemological and spiritual import of these understandings. The concept of the 'spiritual senses' is thereby importantly recovered for contemporary theological anthropology and philosophy of religion.

Contents:

Origen of Alexandria / Mark J. McInroy

Gregory of Nyssa / Sarah Coakley

Augustine / Matthew R. Lootens

Gregory the Great / George Demacopoulos

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite / Paul L. Gavrilyuk

Maximus the Confessor / Frederick D. Aquino

Alexander of Hales ; Thomas Gallus / Boyd Taylor Coolman

Bonaventure / Gregory F. LaNave

Thomas Aquinas / Richard Cross

Late medieval mystics / Bernard McGinn

Nicholas of Cusa / Garth Green

Jonathan Edwards and his Puritan predecessors / William J. Wainwright

John Wesley / Mark T. Mealey

Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar / Mark J. McInroy

Analytic philosophers of religion / William J. Abraham.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-139-17949-7

1-107-22530-2

1-283-37852-3

9786613378521

1-139-18910-7

1-139-18782-1

1-139-19041-5

1-139-18319-2

1-139-18551-9

1-139-03279-8

OCLC:

782876991