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Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding Mark Wynn (University of Exeter)

Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding By Mark Wynn (University of Exeter)

Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding by Mark Wynn (University of Exeter)


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Wynn argues that the landscape of philosophical theology looks rather different from the perspective of a re-conceived theory of emotion. He 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.

Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding Summary

Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding: Integrating Perception, Conception and Feeling by Mark Wynn (University of Exeter)

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, these strategies are mistaken at root, since form and content are not properly separable here - because 'inwardness' may contribute to 'thought-content', or because (to use the vocabulary of the book) emotional feelings can themselves constitute thoughts; or because, to put the point a further way, in religious contexts, perception and conception are often infused by feeling. 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.

Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding Reviews

'This is a brave, interesting and thought-provoking book which shows Mark Wynn's authorial voice to be possessed of a sensitive moral sensibility. ... I read the book with much gratitude for its having been written, and I am sure that many others will do so too. ... can be recommended to all who are concerned with the epistemology of the religious life, as well as to those who sense a lack in much contemporary philosophy of religion of a properly human sense of why religion might matter in the first place.' Religious Studies

About Mark Wynn (University of Exeter)

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).

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Religious experience and the perception of value; 2. Love, repentance and the moral life; 3. Finding and making value in the world; 4. Emotional feeling: philosophical, psychological and neurological perspectives; 5. Emotional feeling and religious understanding; 6. Representation in art and religion; 7. The religious critique of feeling.

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NPB9780521549899
9780521549899
0521549892
Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding: Integrating Perception, Conception and Feeling by Mark Wynn (University of Exeter)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2005-05-26
216
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