"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 th...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Gavrilyuk, Paul L. (HerausgeberIn), Coakley, Sarah, 1951- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Schlagworte:	Senses and sensation > Religious aspects > Christianity. God (Christianity) > Knowableness. Theological anthropology > Christianity. God (Christianity) > History of doctrines. Sens et sensations > Aspect religieux > Christianisme. Dieu (Christianisme) > Cognoscibilité. Anthropologie théologique > Christianisme. Dieu (Christianisme) > Histoire des doctrines. RELIGION > Theology. RELIGION > Christian Theology > General. God (Christianity) > History of doctrines God (Christianity) > Knowableness Senses and sensation > Religious aspects > Christianity Theological anthropology > Christianity Religion. Electronic book.
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Zusammenfassung:	"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"-- "In this chapter I argue for a reassessment of current academic opinion regarding the theme of the spiritual senses in the writings of Origen of Alexandria (c. 185--c. 254). Specifically, John Dillon has claimed that it is exclusively in Origen's late works that one finds a 'proper' doctrine of the spiritual senses (the crucial features of which will be discussed below).1 Dillon argues that Origen's early works, by contrast, evince only a metaphorical use of the language of sensation.2 The early Origen, according to this reading, is not actually describing the perception of spiritual realities, as is typically thought. Instead, in his early writings Origen uses terms such as 'seeing' and 'hearing' in a figurative manner to describe 'understanding', placing no particular value on the sensory dimension to the terms. In contrast to this assessment, however, I argue here that unexamined aspects of Origen's early writings in fact demonstrate noteworthy continuities between his early and late uses of sensory language. In particular, portions of Origen's early scriptural commentaries and Deprincipiis show that his 'doctrine of the spiritual senses' emerges much earlier than has been recently supposed"--
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xix, 316 pages)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:	9781139190411 1139190415 9781139032797 1139032798 9781139187824 1139187821 9781107225305 1107225302 1139179497 9781139179492 1139189107 9781139189101 1139183192 9781139183192 1139185519 9781139185516