Sarah Coakley 
Faith, Rationality and the Passions [EPUB ebook] 

Faith, Rationality and the Passions presents a fresh and
original examination of the relation of religious faith,
philosophical rationality and the passions. Contributions see
leading scholars refute the widely-held belief that religious
Enlightenment forced passion and reason apart.

* Leading Philosophical experts offer new research on the
relation of faith, reason and the passions in classic and
Enlightenment figures

* Overturns the widely-held presumption that the Enlightenment
was responsible for creating a gulf between reason and
passion

* Presents original and innovative research on the importance of
the late-19th century creation of the category of
’emotion’, and its striking difference from classic
ideas of passion

* Brings together secular science and philosophy of emotion with
philosophical theology to seek a new integration of belief, emotion
and reason

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Faith, Rationality, and the Passions 1

SARAH COAKLEY

1 Reason, Faith, and Meaning 13

CHARLES TAYLOR

2 The Invention of Fanaticism 29

WILLIAM T. CAVANAUGH

3 The Late Arrival of Language: Word, Nature, and the Divine in
Plato’s Cratylus 41

CATHERINE PICKSTOCK

4 Evagrius Ponticus and the Eastern Monastic Tradition on the
Intellect and the Passions 67

COLUMBA STEWART, O.S.B.

5 Tears and Weeping: An Augustinian View 81

PAUL J. GRIFFITHS

6 The Non-Aristotelian Character of Aquinas’s Ethics:
Aquinas on the Passions 91

ELEONORE STUMP

7 Skeptical Detachment or Loving Submission to the Good? Reason,
Faith, and the Passions in Descartes 107

JOHN COTTINGHAM

8 Hume Versus Kant: Faith, Reason, and Feeling 117

JOHN MILBANK

9 Kant, the Passions, and the Structure of Moral Motivation
139

JOHN HARE

10 ’The Monstrous Centaur’? Joseph De Maistre on
Reason, Passion, and Violence 157

DOUGLAS HEDLEY

11 Kierkegaard on Faith, Reason, and Passion 169

MEROLD WESTPHAL

12 Revolting Passions 181

THOMAS DIXON

13 Wittgenstein on Faith, Rationality, and the Passions
197

STEPHEN MULHALL

14 Psychology and the Rationality of Emotion 209

GERALD L. CLORE

15 The Neuroscience of Emotion and Reasoning in Social Contexts:
Implications for Moral Theology 223

MICHAEL L. SPEZIO

16 Intellectual Emotions and Religious Emotions 241

PETER GOLDIE

Postscript: What (if Anything) can the Sciences Tell Philosophy
and Theology about Faith, Rationality, and the Passions? 251

SARAH COAKLEY

Index 257

Om författaren

Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the
University of Cambridge, and was previously Mallinckrodt Professor
of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. She is a systematic
theologian and philosopher of religion with wide interdisciplinary
interests. Her previous publications include Powers and
Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2002), Re-Thinking Gregory of Nyssa
(editor, Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), Pain and Its Transformations:
The Interface of Biology and Culture (co-edited with Kay
Shelemay, 2007) and Re-Thinking Dinoysius the Areopagite
(co-edited, with Charles Stang, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).