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Head and heart : perspectives from religion and psychology / edited by Fraser Watts, Geoff Drumbeck.

Contributor(s): Publisher: West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania : Templeton Press, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781599474489
  • 1599474484
  • 1299850553
  • 9781299850552
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Head and heartDDC classification:
  • 200.1/9 23
LOC classification:
  • BL53 .H365 2013eb
Other classification:
  • REL075000 | REL106000 | REL102000 | PSY013000
Online resources:
Contents:
Part 1: Theology. 1. Head and heart in Christian theology / Geoff Drumbeck -- 2. "Keeping alive the heart in the head": poetic imagination as a way of knowing / Malcolm Guite -- 3. "If you can keep your head when all about you / are losing theirs and blaming it on you": head and heart in recent analytical philosophy of religion and natural theology / Russell Re Manning -- Part 2: Psychology. 4. Empirical measures of the religious heart / Bonnie Poon Zahl, Carissa A. Sharp, and Nicholas J.S. Gibson -- 5. Dual-system theories of religious cognition / Fraser Watts -- Part 3: Application. 6. Head and heart in preventing religious radicalization / Sara Salvage -- 7. Head God and heart God: pastoral work to help clients overcome harmful God images / Glendon L. Moriarty -- 8. Religious education / Sally Myers -- Part 4: Integration. 9. Head, heart, and wisdom / Harris Wiseman -- 10. The head and the heart of the matter in hope and forgiveness / Liz Gulliford -- Conclusion: Head and heart in cultural context / Fraser Watts.
Summary: Theologians and religious figures often draw a distinction between religion of the '"head" and religion of the "heart," but few stop to ask what the terms "head" and "heart" actually denote. Many assume that this distinction has a scriptural basis, and yet many Biblical authors used the word "heart" as a synonym for "mind." In fact, there isn't a strict separation of the two concepts until the modern period, as in Pascal's famous claim that "the heart has its reasons that reason can not know." Since then, many other philosophers and theologians have made a similar distinction.
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Theologians and religious figures often draw a distinction between religion of the '"head" and religion of the "heart," but few stop to ask what the terms "head" and "heart" actually denote. Many assume that this distinction has a scriptural basis, and yet many Biblical authors used the word "heart" as a synonym for "mind." In fact, there isn't a strict separation of the two concepts until the modern period, as in Pascal's famous claim that "the heart has its reasons that reason can not know." Since then, many other philosophers and theologians have made a similar distinction.

Part 1: Theology. 1. Head and heart in Christian theology / Geoff Drumbeck -- 2. "Keeping alive the heart in the head": poetic imagination as a way of knowing / Malcolm Guite -- 3. "If you can keep your head when all about you / are losing theirs and blaming it on you": head and heart in recent analytical philosophy of religion and natural theology / Russell Re Manning -- Part 2: Psychology. 4. Empirical measures of the religious heart / Bonnie Poon Zahl, Carissa A. Sharp, and Nicholas J.S. Gibson -- 5. Dual-system theories of religious cognition / Fraser Watts -- Part 3: Application. 6. Head and heart in preventing religious radicalization / Sara Salvage -- 7. Head God and heart God: pastoral work to help clients overcome harmful God images / Glendon L. Moriarty -- 8. Religious education / Sally Myers -- Part 4: Integration. 9. Head, heart, and wisdom / Harris Wiseman -- 10. The head and the heart of the matter in hope and forgiveness / Liz Gulliford -- Conclusion: Head and heart in cultural context / Fraser Watts.

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