Emotions: Problems and Promise for Human Flourishing: by Barbara J. McClure, Waco, TX, Baylor University Press, 2019, xvi + 349 pp., $59.95, ISBN 978-1-60258-329-0, Hardcover.

In this chapter, she provides an overarching view of history by looking back and summarizes earlier chapters, tracing the narrative arch of the role of emotions in wellbeing. McClure shares her struggles with finding a narrative arc across these differing ways of understanding emotions. Before divin...

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Publicado en:Journal of Pastoral Theology Vol. 32; no. 2/3; pp. 250 - 253
Autor principal: Doehring, Carrie
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Nov2022
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Sumario:In this chapter, she provides an overarching view of history by looking back and summarizes earlier chapters, tracing the narrative arch of the role of emotions in wellbeing. McClure shares her struggles with finding a narrative arc across these differing ways of understanding emotions. Before diving into I Emotions: Problems and Promise for Human Flourishing i , I assumed that emotions are hardwired in the neural networks of our brains, "ready to be "triggered" by a particular (and specific) stimulus" (150).