Scott Swain, President of Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL

“The author elaborates his argument, which I have only briefly summarized, with great learning and sophistication. He offers careful historical description of the views of Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, along with a host of other medieval and modern theologians. He engages the findings of contemporary neuroscience and psychology with discrimination and judgment. Amid his extensive and detailed analysis of myriad thinkers, issues, and claims, the author never loses sight of his overarching argument but patiently builds a constructive biblical, dogmatic, and pastoral theological case for his proposal. LaPine’s book, the published fruit of his doctoral research under Kevin Vanhoozer at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, is among the most learned dissertation monographs I have read over the past two and a half decades. In addition to that, I find its argument convincing. LaPine’s argument reflects the fullness of divine teaching on human emotions in the Book of Nature and the Book of Scripture, ever honoring the status of the latter as ruler and judge of the former. The Logic of the Body is theological anthropology at its best and pastoral theology at its wisest.”