Spiritual Senses - Perceiving God in Western Christianity

Informationen zum Autor Paul L. Gavrilyuk is Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the University of St Thomas, Minnesota. He is the author of The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought (2004) and Histoire du catéchuménat dans l'église ancienne (2007). Sarah Coakley is Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. Her previous publications include Powers and Submissions: Philosophy, Spirituality and Gender (2002) and she was the editor of Re-Thinking Gregory of Nyssa (2003) and co-editor (with Charles M. Stang) of Re-Thinking Dionysius the Areopagite (2009). Klappentext Provides a historical survey of the Christian spiritual sense tradition from Origen to von Balthasar. Zusammenfassung Can we see! hear! touch! smell and taste God? This book examines the spiritual senses and how they relate to the physical senses! identifying their relationship with the mind! heart! emotions! will! desire and judgment. Contributors survey the response of Christian thinkers! from Origen to von Balthasar! to this issue. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Paul Gavrilyuk and Sarah Coakley; 1. Origen of Alexandria Mark J. McInroy; 2. Gregory of Nyssa Sarah Coakley; 3. Augustine Matthew R. Lootens; 4. Gregory the Great George Demacopoulos; 5. Pseudo-Dionysis the Areopagite Paul L. Gavrilyuk; 6. Maximus the Confessor Frederick D. Aquino; 7. Alexander of Hales Boyd Taylor Coolman; 8. Thomas Gallus Boyd Taylor Coolman; 9. Bonaventure Gregory F. LaNave; 10. Thomas Aquinas Richard Cross; 11. Late medieval mystics Bernard McGinn; 12. Nicholas of Cusa Garth Green; 13. Jonathan Edwards and his Puritan predecessors William J. Wainwright; 14. John Wesley Mark T. Mealey; 15. Hars Urs von Balthasar and Karl Rahner Mark J. McInroy; 16. Analytic philosophers of religion William J. Abraham; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Paul L Gavrilyuk, Paul L. Gavrilyuk, Paul L. Coakley Gavrilyuk, GAVRILYUK PAUL L COAKLEY SARAH
• Assisted by: Sarah Coakley (Editor), Paul L. Gavrilyuk (Editor), Gavrilyuk Paul L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2011
• EAN: 9780521769204
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76920-4
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Spirituality, RELIGION / Theology, Religion: general, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Spirituality and religious experience, Nature and existence of God, Nature and existence of God and of the Divine