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I was changed by an old book many years ago: On the Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards.  Edwards, a leader in the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century, spoke of the need to have the “affections”–the emotional, affective, feeling regions awakened.  He described the hard heart of Ezekiel’s prophecy as an unfeeling, inert, unresponsive heart.  And he had a very physical understanding of the affections, using words like humours, fluids, and the like to refer to them.  The bodily effects of feeling: weeping, tears, a stirring in the pit of the stomach, flushing of the face, warmth.
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