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The spirit, the affections, and the Christian tradition / edited by Dale M. Coulter and Amos Yong.

Contributor(s): Coulter, Dale M. (Dale Michael), 1970- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2016]Description: xi, 313 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780268100049; 0268100047Subject(s): Emotions -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrinesLOC classification: BV4597.3 | .S66 2016Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The language of affectivity and the Christian life / Dale M. Coulter -- Blessed passion of love : the affections, the church fathers, and the Christian life / Robert Louis Wilken -- Redeeming the affections : deconstructing Augustine's critique of theater / James K.A. Smith -- The beauty of holiness : deification of the passions in the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom / Bradley Nassif -- Holy tears : a neglected aspect of early Christian spirituality in contemporary context / Michael J. McClymond -- The transformative role of emotion in the Middle Ages : deliverance from lukewarm affections / Elizabeth A. Dreyer -- Aquinas on sanctifying the affections : participating in the life of the Spirit / Craig A. Boyd -- Letting go of detachment : Eckhart's "Gelassenheit" and the immanence of the Spirit / Sharon L. Putt -- The bondage of the affections : willing, feeling, and desiring in Luther's theology, 1513-1525 / Simeon Zahl -- "Movements of the heart" : Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) on affections / Klaas Bom -- "But to know it as we shou'd do" : enthusiasm, historicizing of the charismata, and cessationism in Enlightenment England / Paul C.H. Lim -- Orthokardia : John Wesley's grammar of the Holy Spirit / Gregory S. Clapper -- Jonathan Edwards on the affections and the Spirit / Gerald R. McDermott -- Conclusion: The affective Spirit and historiographical revitalization in the Christian theological tradition / Amos Yong.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The language of affectivity and the Christian life / Dale M. Coulter -- Blessed passion of love : the affections, the church fathers, and the Christian life / Robert Louis Wilken -- Redeeming the affections : deconstructing Augustine's critique of theater / James K.A. Smith -- The beauty of holiness : deification of the passions in the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom / Bradley Nassif -- Holy tears : a neglected aspect of early Christian spirituality in contemporary context / Michael J. McClymond -- The transformative role of emotion in the Middle Ages : deliverance from lukewarm affections / Elizabeth A. Dreyer -- Aquinas on sanctifying the affections : participating in the life of the Spirit / Craig A. Boyd -- Letting go of detachment : Eckhart's "Gelassenheit" and the immanence of the Spirit / Sharon L. Putt -- The bondage of the affections : willing, feeling, and desiring in Luther's theology, 1513-1525 / Simeon Zahl -- "Movements of the heart" : Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) on affections / Klaas Bom -- "But to know it as we shou'd do" : enthusiasm, historicizing of the charismata, and cessationism in Enlightenment England / Paul C.H. Lim -- Orthokardia : John Wesley's grammar of the Holy Spirit / Gregory S. Clapper -- Jonathan Edwards on the affections and the Spirit / Gerald R. McDermott -- Conclusion: The affective Spirit and historiographical revitalization in the Christian theological tradition / Amos Yong.

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