On the affective salience of doctrines
This article builds on the work of George Lindbeck to examine the role of doctrines in the shaping of religious experience and emotion. Using a series of historical examples, it argues for the value of identifying a mode of theological argument that supports claims through attending to perceived aff...
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| description | This article builds on the work of George Lindbeck to examine the role of doctrines in the shaping of religious experience and emotion. Using a series of historical examples, it argues for the value of identifying a mode of theological argument that supports claims through attending to perceived affective effects of particular doctrines. It then applies this approach to Philipp Melanchthon’s classic articulation of the forensic model of the doctrine justification by faith in light of contemporary critiques of the doctrine as a ‘legal fiction’ to show how such critiques fail when examined from the perspective of affective salience, and draws on recent work in cognitive science to demonstrate the psychological plausibility of Melanchthon’s description of the affective consequences of justification. |
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| spelling | nottingham-345752020-05-04T17:09:27Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34575/ On the affective salience of doctrines Zahl, Simeon This article builds on the work of George Lindbeck to examine the role of doctrines in the shaping of religious experience and emotion. Using a series of historical examples, it argues for the value of identifying a mode of theological argument that supports claims through attending to perceived affective effects of particular doctrines. It then applies this approach to Philipp Melanchthon’s classic articulation of the forensic model of the doctrine justification by faith in light of contemporary critiques of the doctrine as a ‘legal fiction’ to show how such critiques fail when examined from the perspective of affective salience, and draws on recent work in cognitive science to demonstrate the psychological plausibility of Melanchthon’s description of the affective consequences of justification. Wiley 2015-07-01 Article PeerReviewed Zahl, Simeon (2015) On the affective salience of doctrines. Modern Theology, 31 (3). pp. 428-444. ISSN 1468-0025 Affectivity Melanchthon Lindbeck Milbank Doctrine Theology and Cognitive Science http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/moth.12166/abstract doi:10.1111/moth.12166 doi:10.1111/moth.12166 |
| spellingShingle | Affectivity Melanchthon Lindbeck Milbank Doctrine Theology and Cognitive Science Zahl, Simeon On the affective salience of doctrines |
| title | On the affective salience of doctrines |
| title_full | On the affective salience of doctrines |
| title_fullStr | On the affective salience of doctrines |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the affective salience of doctrines |
| title_short | On the affective salience of doctrines |
| title_sort | on the affective salience of doctrines |
| topic | Affectivity Melanchthon Lindbeck Milbank Doctrine Theology and Cognitive Science |
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