John Wesley has arguably influenced more English-speaking
Christians than any other Protestant interpreter. One reason for
this wide influence is that Wesley often spoke about the "heart"
and its "affections"-that realm of life where all humans experience
their deepest satisfactions, as well as some of their deepest
conundrums. However, one of the problems of interpreting and
appropriating Wesley is that we have been blinded to Wesley's
actual views about "heart religion" by contemporary stereotypes
about "affections" or "emotions." Because of this, it is rare that
either Wesley's friends or his critics appreciate his sophisticated
understanding of affective reality. To make clear what Wesley meant
when he emphasized the renewal of the heart, Gregory S. Clapper
summarizes some recent paradigm-changing accounts of the nature of
"emotion" produced by contemporary philosophers and theologians,
and then applies them to Wesley's conception of the heart and its
affections. These accounts of emotion throw new light on Wesley's
vision of Christianity as a renewal of the heart and make it
possible to reclaim the language of the heart, not as a pandering
or manipulative rhetoric, but as the framework for a comprehensive
theological vision of Christian life and thought. The book closes
with several practical applications that make clear the power of
Wesley's vision to transform lives today.
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