Kontingente Gefühle

Moraltheologische Überlegungen im Anschluss an antike Emotionstheorien und biblische Emotionsvorstellungen

Book cover: Kontingente Gefühle

Extent: 391 pages

Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Subjects: Religious Studies

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(October 2026)

ISBN: 9783402119709

6.1 x 9.09 inches

Price: $62.00

PDF (Published)

(October 2026)

ISBN: 9783402119716

6.1 x 9.09 inches

Price: $62.00

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Feelings are contingent phenomena. They indicate what concerns us, how we interpret and evaluate our experiences—or more precisely, what we have learned to perceive as meaningful. Emotions are neither arbitrary impulses, nor merely individual matters; they also reflect social practices. This insight, however, has thus far received little attention in Catholic moral theology. The present study addresses this desideratum. Drawing on ancient theories and biblical texts, it uncovers the contingent formation of human emotional worlds and, on this basis, opens up new perspectives for the theological-ethical evaluation of emotional experience