The Spiritual Senses
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The Spiritual Senses

Perceiving God in Western Christianity

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  2. English
  3. PDF
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eBook - PDF

The Spiritual Senses

Perceiving God in Western Christianity

About this book

Is it possible to see, hear, touch, smell and taste God? How do we understand the biblical promise that the 'pure in heart' will 'see God'? Christian thinkers as diverse as Origen of Alexandria, Bonaventure, Jonathan Edwards and Hans Urs von Balthasar have all approached these questions in distinctive ways by appealing to the concept of the 'spiritual senses'. In focusing on the Christian tradition of the 'spiritual senses', this book discusses how these senses relate to the physical senses and the body, and analyzes their relationship to mind, heart, emotions, will, desire and judgement. The contributors illuminate the different ways in which classic Christian authors have treated this topic, and indicate the epistemological and spiritual import of these understandings. The concept of the 'spiritual senses' is thereby importantly recovered for contemporary theological anthropology and philosophy of religion.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780521769204
eBook ISBN
9781139180627
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Theology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THE SPIRITUAL SENSES
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. Foreword
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Introduction: Paul L. Gavrilyuk and Sarah Coakley
  11. CHAPTER 1 Origen of Alexandria Mark J. McInroy
  12. CHAPTER 2 Gregory of Nyssa Sarah Coakley
  13. CHAPTER 3 Augustine Matthew R. Lootens
  14. CHAPTER 4 Gregory the Great George E. Demacopoulos
  15. CHAPTER 5 Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
  16. CHAPTER 6 Maximus the Confessor Frederick D. Aquino
  17. CHAPTER 7 Alexander of Hales Boyd Taylor Coolman
  18. CHAPTER 8 Thomas Gallus Boyd Taylor Coolman
  19. CHAPTER 9 Bonaventure Gregory F. LaNave
  20. CHAPTER 10 Thomas Aquinas Richard Cross
  21. CHAPTER 11 Late medieval mystic Bernard McGinns
  22. CHAPTER 12 Nicholas of Cusa Garth W. Green
  23. CHAPTER 13 Jonathan Edwards and his Puritan predecessors William J. Wainwright
  24. CHAPTER 14 John Wesley Mark T. Mealey
  25. CHAPTER 15 Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar Mark J. McInroy
  26. CHAPTER 16 Analytic philosophers of religion William J. Abraham
  27. Select bibliography
  28. General index
  29. Index of select biblical references

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