Faith, Rationality and the Passions [Paperback]

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

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
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