Faith and Philosophy is published quarterly by the Society of Christian Philosophers. The journal encourages discussions among philosophers representing a wide variety of theological perspectives and philosophical orientations that fall largely within the philosophy of religion. This issue emerged from a symposium at the University of Cambridge in 2010 titled “Faith, Rationality and the Passions,” sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation as part of its Humble Approach Initiative. The papers in this issue represent a certain revisionary re-thinking of the relation of “reason” and “passion” or “emotion” in certain classic Western philosophical resources. The uniting theme is that the supposed “modern” disjunction of reason and feeling in Western philosophy has been vastly exaggerated in late-modern renditions, if not actively manipulated by the secondary literature. Most important is the understanding of the various ways in which “reason,” “passion,” “feeling,” and “faith” are construed in the works of the philosophers under review.
11, 12, and 13 January 2010
Wolfson College, Cambridge University