What is it about?
A succinct critique of Faithful Feelings and New Testament research on emotion.
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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 Greco-Roman moral philosophy. (My working definition of emotion is the product of an independent study with Joel Green at Fuller Seminary in 2009. First presented in “The Climax of Testing at Gethsemane: Mark 14:32–42;” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. Minneapolis, MN, 6 March 2010. Subsequently published as "'Emotional' Temptation and Jesus' Spiritual Victory at Markan Gethsemane," JBPR 5 [2013]: 29-48.)
Perspectives
I hope this review might challenge readers to reconsider the oft used categorical dichotomy of "positive versus negative" emotion.
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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