The spiritual senses: perceiving God in Western Christianity
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 qu...
| Summary: | 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. Origen of Alexandria / Mark J. McInroy -- Gregory of Nyssa / Sarah Coakley -- Augustine / Matthew R. Lootens -- Gregory the Great / George Demacopoulos -- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite / Paul L. Gavrilyuk -- Maximus the Confessor / Frederick D. Aquino -- Alexander of Hales ; Thomas Gallus / Boyd Taylor Coolman -- Bonaventure / Gregory F. LaNave -- Thomas Aquinas / Richard Cross -- Late medieval mystics / Bernard McGinn -- Nicholas of Cusa / Garth Green -- Jonathan Edwards and his Puritan predecessors / William J. Wainwright -- John Wesley / Mark T. Mealey -- Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar / Mark J. McInroy -- Analytic philosophers of religion / William J. Abraham |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 316 pages), digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 1139032798 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139032797 |