EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND RELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: INTEGRATING PERCEPTION, CONCEPTION AND FEELING

EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND RELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: INTEGRATING PERCEPTION, CONCEPTION AND FEELING

PSYCHOLOGY

In this book Mark Wynn argues that the landscape of philosophical
theology looks rather different from the perspective of a reconceived
theory of emotion. In matters of religion, we do not need to opt for
objective content over emotional form or vice versa. On the contrary, these strategies are mistaken at root, since form and content are
not properly separable here – because ‘inwardness’ may contribute to
‘thought-content’, or because (to use the vocabulary of the book)
emotional feelings can themselves constitute thoughts; or because, to
put the point another way, in religious contexts, perception and
conception are often infused by feeling. Wynn uses this perspective
to forge a distinctive approach to a range of established topics in
philosophy of religion, notably: religious experience; the problem of
evil; the relationship of religion and ethics, and religion and art; and
in general, the connection of ‘feeling’ to doctrine and tradition.

MARK WYNN

www.cambridge.org/9780521840569

Cambridge University Press

2005

ENGLISH