Is Faith an Emotion?: Faith as a Meaning-Making Affective Process: An Example From Breast Cancer Patients

摘要: To understand the meaning of religious faith within context theobiology, this study reports on findings a breast cancer (BC) patients and how they defined with emotion words reported via open-ended short narratives helped them in coping their BC. When defining faith, BC preferred positive (82.9%) over negative (17%). Still, fact that were used at all indicates need to as construct encompasses well emotions. confirmed historical views Thomas Aquinas role emotions faith.