Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding: Integrating Perception, Conception and Feeling [Paperback]

Wynn tackles established topics in philosophical theology in the light of new perspectives on emotions.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.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.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.Preface; 1. Religious experience and the perception of value; 2. Love, repentance and thlcß