Thinking Through Feeling: God, Emotion and PassibilityContemporary 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 debate 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. |
Contents
Passiones and Affectiones in Augustine and Aquinas | |
Emotion Intelligence and Divine Omniscience | |
Compassion | |
Anger | |
Jealousy | |
Overview of Chapters 3 to 6 | |
Emotion Will and Divine Omnipotence | |
Conclusion | |
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Thinking Through Feeling: God, Emotion and Passibility Anastasia Philippa Scrutton Limited preview - 2011 |
Thinking Through Feeling: God, Emotion and Passibility Anastasia Philippa Scrutton No preview available - 2013 |
Thinking Through Feeling: God, Emotion and Passibility Anastasia Philippa Scrutton No preview available - 2011 |
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affects agape argument Aristotle aspect attribute Augustine Augustine’s Augustinian Baloian beliefs beloved Ben-Ze’ev bodily appetite bodily feelings bodily sensations body Butler chapter choose Christ Christian theology City of God claim cognitive compassion Cook discussion distinction divine anger divine impassibility divine love early church emotional experiences emotionally empathy entail eros eudaimonistic evaluation example experienced experiential knowledge fact forgiveness God’s anger God’s love God’s omnipotence God’s suffering Griswold human imagination impassibilism impassibility debate intellectual intelligence involuntary irrational jealousy judgement of similar Lactantius Mansfield Park means modern Moltmann moral Nussbaum Nygren object omniscience one’s passibilist Passibility Passion’s Slave passions passive pathē pathos personally involved love philosophy of emotion physiological pity potentially problem of evil propositional knowledge question rational reason resentment response Sarot sense sexual desire similar possibility simply Solomon someone soul Stoics suggests theologians things thought understanding Upheavals view of emotions voluntary vulnerability Wim Wenders