Faithful Feelings
Faithful Feelings Everything we do, say and think is, in some sense, emotional. In the New Testament, Jesus and Paul displayed a wide range of emotions in their lives and teaching. We describe…
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Faithful Feelings
Everything we do, say and think is, in some sense, emotional. In the New Testament, Jesus and Paul displayed a wide range of emotions in their lives and teaching. We describe ourselves and our experiences in terms of how we feel.
However, in recent times, many preachers and theologians have pushed emotion to the sidelines. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards and others have recognized the vital importance of emotion in Christian experience. The relationship between reason and emotion can be confused or obscure in much of our thinking.
We need to look afresh at the causes, nature and role of felt experience in Christian living. In this significant new study, Matthew Elliott asks 'What is an emotion?', and applies recent studies of emotion to the New Testament. While he discusses the vocabulary of emotion - love, joy, hope, jealousy, fear, sorrow, anger - his primary concern is