Table of Contents
Preface ix
Introduction: The Language of Affectivity and the Christian Life Dale M. Coulter 1
Chapter 1 Blessed Passion of Love: The Affections, the Church Fathers, and the Christian Life Robert Louis Wilken 29
Chapter 2 Redeeming the Affections: Deconstructing Augustine's Critique of Theater James K. A. Smith 41
Chapter 3 The Beauty of Holiness: Deification of the Passions in the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Bradley Nassif 65
Chapter 4 Holy Tears: A Neglected Aspect of Early Christian Spirituality in Contemporary Context Michael J. McClymond 87
Chapter 5 The Transformative Role of Emotion in the Middle Ages: Deliverance from Lukewarm Affections Elizabeth A. Dreyer 113
Chapter 6 Aquinas on Sanctifying the Affections: Participating in the Life of the Spirit Craig A. Boyd 143
Chapter 7 Letting Go of Detachment: Eckharts Gelassenheit and the Immanence of the Spirit Sharon L. Putt 161
Chapter 8 The Bondage of the Affections: Willing, Feeling, and Desiring in Luther's Theology, 1513-1525 Simeon Zahl 181
Chapter 9 "Movements of the Heart": Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) on Affections Klaas Bom 207
Chapter 10 "But to know it as we shou'd do": Enthusiasm, Historicizing of the Charismata, and Cessationism in Enlightenment England Paul C. H. Lim 231
Chapter 11 Orthokardia: John Wesley's Grammar of the Holy Spirit Gregory S. Clapper 259
Chapter 12 Jonathan Edwards on the Affections and the Spirit Gerald R. McDermott 279
Conclusion: The Affective Spirit and Historiographical Revitalization in the Christian Theological Tradition Amos Yong 293
List of Contributors 303
Index 305