Introduction
1 Reason, Faith, and the Rediscovery of Sensibility
2 The Essential Polarity of the Human Condition
3 Human Likeness to God
4 Human Emotionality and the Imago Dei
5 The Unity of Love
6 Between Embodiment and Spirituality
7 Gathering the Threads: The Theological Contours of Human
Emotionality
Bibliography
Subject Index
Beáta Tóth (STD, PhD Literature, KU Leuven) is Chair of the Department of Systematic Theology at Sapientia College of Theology in Budapest.
"This book represents an important contribution to a Christian
vision of affectivity - essential for understanding the human
condition and our relationship with God. Through her study of such
figures as Thomas Aquinas, Paul Ricoeur, Pope John Paul II, and
Jean-Luc Marion, Toth has developed a 'Christian logic of
affectivity' and the implications for theological anthropology. A
timely study."
Declan Marmion, Professor of Systematic Theology, St Patrick's
College, Maynooth, Ireland
"This is a deep, rich, and surprising theological anthropology.
Employing the riches of the theological tradition, Tóth overcomes
the centuries-old rupture between reason and affect by retrieving
the biblical concept of the heart - life's 'innermost core' - and
the 'median zone,' reuniting the sensible and the spiritual. With
an intensity worthy of Pascal, she thus shows how embodied human
life can still be considered the image of God and of God's immense
love."
Anthony J. Godzieba, Professor of Theology & Religious Studies,
Villanova University
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