Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding: Integrating Perception, Conception and Feeling - Softcover

Wynn, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521549892 ISBN 13: 9780521549899

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Mark 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.

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Book Description

In this book Mark 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, form and content are not properly separable here--because 'inwardness' may contribute to 'thought-content'. Wynn uses this perspective to forge a distinctive approach to a range of established topics in philosophy of religion, and to examine the connection of 'feeling' to doctrine and tradition.

About the Author

Dr Mark Wynn teaches philosophy of religion and ethics in the Department of Theology, University of Exeter. He is the author of God and Goodness: A Natural Theological Perspective (Routledge, 1999).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521549892
• ISBN 13: 9780521549899
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216