Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding

Dr Mark Wynn teaches philosophy of religion and ethics in the Department of Theology, University of Exeter. He is the author of God and Goodness: A Natural Theological Perspective (Routledge, 1999).

• Preface; 1. Religious experience and the perception of value; 2. Love, repentance and the moral life; 3. Finding and making value in the world; 4. Emotional feeling: philosophical, psychological and neurological perspectives; 5. Emotional feeling and religious understanding; 6. Representation in art and religion; 7. The religious critique of feeling.

'This is a brave, interesting and thought-provoking book which shows Mark Wynn's authorial voice to be possessed of a sensitive moral sensibility. … I read the book with much gratitude for its having been written, and I am sure that many others will do so too. … can be recommended to all who are concerned with the epistemology of the religious life, as well as to those who sense a lack in much contemporary philosophy of religion of a properly human sense of why religion might matter in the first place.' Religious Studies