Theologians and religious figures often draw a distinction between religion of the head and religion of the heart, but few stop to ask what the terms head and heart actually denote. Many assume that this distinction has a scriptural basis, and yet many Biblical authors used the word heart as a synonym for mind. In fact, there isn t a strict separation of the two concepts until the modern period, as in Pascal s famous claim that the heart has its reasons that reason can not know. Since then, many other philosophers and theologians have made a similar distinction.The fact that this distinction...