Issues in Science and Theology: Do Emotions Shape the World?

by Michael Fuller (editor)

Introduction, Michael Fuller.- Part The Importance of Emotions, and of Emotional Well-Being.- 1. Attachment, Emotion and Religion, Pehr Granqvist.- 2. Post Traumatic Stress, Moral Injury, and Soul Implications for Western Christian Theology, Rita Nakashima Brock.- 3. Shaping Emotions that Shape the World, Marjorie Hall Davis and Karl E. Peters.- 4. Smile and lie? Why we are able to distinguish false smiles from genuine ones, Maria Magdalena Weker.- 5. The Orientation of Longing, Christopher Southgate.- 6. Cognitive or Affective? A Philosophical Analysis of Modes of Understanding Compassion, Anne L.C. Runehov.- Part Reflections on Emotions from the Sciences.- 7. From vicarious actions to moral behavior, Christian Keysers and Valeria Gazzola.- 8. The trouble with concepts of religion in the cognitive science of religion and the role of emotions, Indrek Peedu.- 9. The Emotional Brain Emotional, Social, and Religious Vetting in the Evolution of Rational Decision Making and Scientific Modeling, Margaret Boone Rappaport and Christopher Corbally.- 10. A World of Codes of Conduct, Phenomenology of Feeling and Morality in Scientific Research, Angela Roothaan.- Part Reflections on Emotions from Theological Perspectives.- 11. Towards a Biblical Theology of Emotions, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi.- 12. Is the ear more spiritual than the eye? Theological reflection on the human senses, Ernst M. Conradie.- 13. A Look at Reason through Love's The Sense of Meaningfulness Within a Bodily Context, Roland Karo.- 14. The scientific approach to Its relevance for the cognitive study of religion and for theology, Lluis Oviedo.- 15. Self-Conscious Emotions, Religion and Theology, Fraser Watts.- 16. Spiritual knowledge as embodied A reading of Jonathan Edwards from an emotion theory point of view, Mikael Sörhuus.- 17. Imaginative Expression of Faith and The Poetry of R. S. Thomas, W. Richard Bowen.- Part Philosophical Reflections.- 18. Mr. Spock and the Gift of Emotion, Reason, and the unity of the human person, Alfred Kracher.- 19. Can Reason be Emotional?, Zbigniew Liana.- 20. Ethics, Emotions and A Humean Investigation, Hans D. Muller.

316 pages, Paperback

First published March 14, 2016