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Affections and Passions

 June 6, 2014 |  Scott |  Uncategorized |  

By Scott Aniol Perhaps one of the most important ideas to grasp in any discussion of music and worship is the difference between affections and passions. Premodern thought understood a distinction between kinds of emotion. At the time of the writing of the New Testament, common Greek thought articulated a distinction between the splankna — the chest — and the koilia — […]

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