 Apart from systematic philosophical considerations, Cohen’s aesthetics is of interest for the light it promises to shed on his philosophy of religion. Cohen came to believe that concepts central to philosophy of religion should be articulated by interpreting historical scriptural texts, including prayers and biblical poetry and prose (Kepnes 2007, Ch. 2) (see §9 below). Thus recent commentators have used Cohen’s account of lyric poetry in the Aesthetics of Pure Feeling to help make sense of his account of an individual’s love for God (Poma 2000), as well as his conception of compassion (Wiedebach 2002).