Reason Turned into Sense: John Smith on Spiritual Sensation - Couverture souple

Michaud, D.A.

 
9789042934825: Reason Turned into Sense: John Smith on Spiritual Sensation
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9042934824 ISBN 13 : 9789042934825
Editeur : Peeters Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

John Smith (1618-1652), long known for the elegance of his prose and the breadth of his erudition, has been underappreciated as a philosophical theologian. This book redresses this by showing how the spiritual senses became an essential tool for responding to early modern developments in philosophy, science, and religion for Smith. Through a close reading of the Select Discourses (1660) it is shown how Smith's theories of theological knowledge, method, and prophecy as well as his prescriptive account of Christian piety rely on his spiritual aesthetics. Smith offers a coherent system with intellectual intuition informing natural theology and revelation supplemented by spiritual perception via the imagination too. The central uniting feature of Smith's philosophical theology is thus 'spiritual sensation' broadly construed. The book closes with proposals for research on Smith's influence on the accounts of the spiritual senses developed by significant later figures including Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) and John Wesley (1703-1791).

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Éditeur
Peeters Publishers
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9042934824
ISBN 13 
9789042934825
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
251
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