Faith, Rationality and the Passions

Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, and was previously Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. She is a systematic theologian and philosopher of religion with wide interdisciplinary interests. Her previous publications include Powers and Submissions:  Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender (Wiley-Blackwell, 2002), Re-Thinking Gregory of Nyssa (editor, Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture (co-edited with Kay Shelemay, 2007) and Re-Thinking Dinoysius the Areopagite (co-edited, with Charles Stang, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

"Essays creatively experiment with understanding the relationships among faith, rationality, and emotion... the volume encourages intriguing perspectives on 'the passions', showing that engaging the emotions does not necessarily lead to destruction of reason or distortion of religious rationality."—Mara Brecht, The Heythorp Journal LVIII (2017), pp. 816-860

• Introduction: Faith, Rationality, and the Passions 1 SARAH COAKLEY1 Reason, Faith, and Meaning 13CHARLES TAYLOR2 The Invention of Fanaticism 29WILLIAM T. CAVANAUGH3 The Late Arrival of Language: Word, Nature, and the Divine in Plato’s Cratylus 41CATHERINE PICKSTOCK4 Evagrius Ponticus and the Eastern Monastic Tradition on the Intellect and the Passions 67COLUMBA STEWART, O.S.B.5 Tears and Weeping: An Augustinian View 81PAUL J. GRIFFITHS6 The Non-Aristotelian Character of Aquinas’s Ethics: Aquinas on the Passions 91ELEONORE STUMP7 Skeptical Detachment or Loving Submission to the Good? Reason, Faith, and the Passions in Descartes 107JOHN COTTINGHAM8 Hume Versus Kant: Faith, Reason, and Feeling 117JOHN MILBANK9 Kant, the Passions, and the Structure of Moral Motivation 139JOHN HARE10 “The Monstrous Centaur”? Joseph De Maistre on Reason, Passion, and Violence 157DOUGLAS HEDLEY11 Kierkegaard on Faith, Reason, and Passion 169MEROLD WESTPHAL12 Revolting Passions 181THOMAS DIXON13 Wittgenstein on Faith, Rationality, and the Passions 197STEPHEN MULHALL14 Psychology and the Rationality of Emotion 209GERALD L. CLORE15 The Neuroscience of Emotion and Reasoning in Social Contexts: Implications for Moral Theology 223MICHAEL L. SPEZIO16 Intellectual Emotions and Religious Emotions 241PETER GOLDIEPostscript: What (if Anything) can the Sciences Tell Philosophy and Theology about Faith, Rationality, and the Passions? 251SARAH COAKLEYIndex 257