affected. God has so united the material (body) and immaterial (soul) aspects of our being that it is virtually impossible for the latter to be greatly moved and it not affect the former. The word “affections,” therefore, describes the more “vigorous and sensible exercises” of this faculty of soul by which we are either greatly drawn to or driven from some reality as perceived by the understanding. Affections, then, are warm and fervid inclinations that reveal the fundamental orientation of the human