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- Investigates beyond the scientific and sentimental heart to discover valuable past mysteries.
- Revises assumptions using original research.
- Establishes the foundation of the heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and Calvin.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book probes beneath modern scientific and sentimental concepts of the heart to discover its past mysteries. Historical hearts evidenced essential aspects of human existence that still endure in modern thought and experience of political community, psychological mentality, and physical vitality. Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle revises ordinary assumptions about the heart with original interdisciplinary research on religious beliefs and theological and philosophical ideas. Her book uncovers the thought of Aristotle, William Harvey, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and John Calvinas it relates to the heart. It analyzes Augustine’s outlaw heart in cultural deviance from biblical law; Aquinas’s problematic argument for the permanence of the natural law in the heart; and Calvin’s advocacy for an affective heart re-created by the Spirit from its fallen nature. This book of cultural anatomies is the climax of her dozen years of publications on the heart.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
About the author
Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle is an intellectual and cultural historian specializing in Christian thought from the biblical to the early modern eras. She was early awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in religion.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural Anatomies of the Heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Harvey
Authors: Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93653-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93652-9Published: 24 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06699-4Published: 26 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93653-6Published: 04 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 171
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Philosophy, Religion and Society, History of Science, Literary History