What is it about?
A succinct critique of Faithful Feelings and New Testament research on emotion. Scholarship often elevates rhetorical concerns about emotion over against moral or philosophical concerns. Such practice, however, belies a first-century CE milieu that sees the wealth of emotion theory stemming from the moralists.
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Why is it important?
New Testament scholarship must adopt a working definition of emotion that fits a first-century milieu vis-à-vis Hellenistic moral philosophy.
Perspectives
I hope this review might challenge readers to reconsider the oft used categorical dichotomy of "positive versus negative" emotion. Within a first-century CE milieu, typically all "feelings" associated with emotion carry temptation to sin or error and must be "set in order" or made right with godly reasoning.
Dr. Richard James Hicks
Fuller Theological Seminary
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This page is a summary of: Faithful Feelings: Rethinking Emotion in the New Testament - By Matthew A. Elliot, Religious Studies Review, September 2010, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0922.2010.01448_12.x.
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