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Tastes of the Divine: Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion , written by Michelle Voss Roberts

Tastes of the Divine: Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion , written by Michelle Voss Roberts Tastes of the Divine: Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion , Comparative Theology: Thinking across Traditions, New York: Fordham University Press 2014, 256 p., isbn 978-0-8232-5739-3, price $ 28.00. The American theologian Michelle Voss Roberts has written an interesting book in which she proposes to use the Indian rasa doctrine for detecting the Divine. It ‘pursues three sentiments for their aesthetic, spiritual, and ethical value: the transcendence of a soul at peace, the passion of a heart in love, and the liberating energy of fury at injustice’ (p. xvi). The main impetus for writing this book is the urgent ethical question she asked time and again: ‘What do inner peace and love for the divine have to do with peace in our world and love of the other?’ (p. xvii). Rasa is emotion and that is important, for ‘[ r ] asa allows theologians to account for the transcendence of religious experience, the embodied means to evoke it, and the tensions between transcendence and the demands of justice’ (p. xviii). While reading the volume it is important to realize that Voss Roberts is not only a theologian educated in sound academic reasoning but also a musician. She knows http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Exchange Brill

Tastes of the Divine: Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion , written by Michelle Voss Roberts

Bakker, Freek L.
Exchange , Volume 44 (2): 204 – Jun 8, 2015
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Tastes of the Divine: Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion , Comparative Theology: Thinking across Traditions, New York: Fordham University Press 2014, 256 p., isbn 978-0-8232-5739-3, price $ 28.00. The American theologian Michelle Voss Roberts has written an interesting book in which she proposes to use the Indian rasa doctrine for detecting the Divine. It ‘pursues three sentiments for their aesthetic, spiritual, and ethical value: the transcendence of a soul at peace, the passion of a heart in love, and the liberating energy of fury at injustice’ (p. xvi). The main impetus for writing this book is the urgent ethical question she asked time and again: ‘What do inner peace and love for the divine have to do with peace in our world and love of the other?’ (p. xvii). Rasa is emotion and that is important, for ‘[ r ] asa allows theologians to account for the transcendence of religious experience, the embodied means to evoke it, and the tensions between transcendence and the demands of justice’ (p. xviii). While reading the volume it is important to realize that Voss Roberts is not only a theologian educated in sound academic reasoning but also a musician. She knows

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