The Logic of Love: Christian Ethics and Moral Psychology
Ebook
Overviewing what makes the intersection between emotion and ethics so confusing, this book surveys an older wisdom in how to manage it, using a range of Christian theologians and sources. More important even than 'managing', we begin to see a vision for a better set of affections to grow within and among us. In this vision emerges a practical and nuanced account of what the Christian tradition sometime summarises as 'love'.
How may we recover a deep affection for what matters, both within ourselves and together in groups? This book also dialogues with a new movement in moral psychology, 'social intuitionism'. Cameron argues that researchers in this discipline have interests and conclusions that sometimes overlap with Christian sources, even where their respective lenses differ. In this way, the book overviews recent trends in moral psychology against a recent historical and contemporary cultural backdrop, whilst assaying major sources in Christian theology that offer guidance on moral psychology.
Provides an overview of recent trends in moral psychology, against a recent historical and contemporary cultural backdrop; and discusses how the recovery of affection assists modern 'values' discourse, Christian preaching, and public civility.
With empirical moral psychology increasingly claiming to explain morality on naturalistic terms, this book offers a cogent evaluation and response from the perspective of Christian theology
In a cultural moment beset by polarising 'passions', the book gives an alternative vision of lives drawn forward by the recovery of new affections
Offers a better way to approach ethics than via 'values' including suggestions for Christian pastoral practice (and preaching); and some constructive modes of engagement in public life
Part One: Emotions and moral psychology
Chapter One:
The amoral roots of modern 'emotion'
Chapter Two:
Computerising ethics or satiating voracity?
Chapter Three:
Parsing the soul: some directions in moral psychology
Part Two: Hebrew and Christian beginnings in an account of moral affections
Chapter Four:
The pursuit of wisdom: a journey of biblical proportions
Chapter Five:
Desire and culpability: a tragedy of biblical proportions
Part Three: Christian reflections in an account of affection
Chapter Six:
An Augustinian synthesis: the ordering of disorder
Chapter Seven:
Aquinas's refinement: the fully Christian organism
Chapter Eight:
Coakley's insight: the ground of all desire
Chapter Nine:
Chittister's gift: an everyday 'school'
Chapter Ten:
Affections, passions, and modern life
Bibliography
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- Title: The Logic of Love: Christian Ethics and Moral Psychology
- Author: Andrew J. B. Cameron
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780567707161, 9780567707130, 056770713X, 0567707164
- Resource ID: LLS:9780567707161
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-25T17:16:51Z