Choice Reviews Online· 2012· Review
The Spiritual senses: perceiving God in Western Christianity
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Short summary
This collection explores how Western Christian thinkers across centuries understood the 'spiritual senses' as a means to perceive God.
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Key points
- The book analyzes the concept of 'spiritual senses' as a method for perceiving God in Western Christianity.
- It features contributions from scholars on key figures like Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas.
- The collection also includes discussions on medieval mystics, Nicholas of Cusa, Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and modern theologians like von Balthasar and Rahner.
- It examines how analytic philosophers of religion have engaged with these ideas.
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Abstract
Introduction Paul Gavrilyuk and Sarah Coakley 1. Origen of Alexandria Mark J. McInroy 2. Gregory of Nyssa Sarah Coakley 3. Augustine Matthew R. Lootens 4. Gregory the Great George Demacopoulos 5. Pseudo-Dionysis the Areopagite Paul L. Gavrilyuk 6. Maximus the Confessor Frederick D. Aquino 7. Alexander of Hales Boyd Taylor Coolman 8. Thomas Gallus Boyd Taylor Coolman 9. Bonaventure Gregory F. LaNave 10. Thomas Aquinas Richard Cross 11. Late medieval mystics Bernard McGinn 12. Nicholas of Cusa Garth Green 13. Jonathan Edwards and his Puritan predecessors William J. Wainwright 14. John Wesley Mark T. Mealey 15. Hars Urs von Balthasar and Karl Rahner Mark J. McInroy 16. Analytic philosophers of religion William J. Abraham Bibliography.
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