9781107685949-110768594X-The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity

The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity

ISBN-13: 9781107685949
ISBN-10: 110768594X
Edition: Reprint
Author: Sarah Coakley, Paul L. Gavrilyuk
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 338 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781107685949
ISBN-10: 110768594X
Edition: Reprint
Author: Sarah Coakley, Paul L. Gavrilyuk
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 338 pages

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The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity (ISBN-13: 9781107685949 and ISBN-10: 110768594X), written by authors Sarah Coakley, Paul L. Gavrilyuk, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Christian Books & Bibles (Theology, Religious Studies) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Christian Books & Bibles books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.23.

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Is it possible to see, hear, touch, smell and taste God? How do we understand the biblical promise that the 'pure in heart' will 'see God'? Christian thinkers as diverse as Origen of Alexandria, Bonaventure, Jonathan Edwards and Hans Urs von Balthasar have all approached these questions in distinctive ways by appealing to the concept of the 'spiritual senses'. In focusing on the Christian tradition of the 'spiritual senses', this book discusses how these senses relate to the physical senses and the body, and analyzes their relationship to mind, heart, emotions, will, desire and judgement. The contributors illuminate the different ways in which classic Christian authors have treated this topic, and indicate the epistemological and spiritual import of these understandings. The concept of the 'spiritual senses' is thereby importantly recovered for contemporary theological anthropology and philosophy of religion.

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