The Logic of Love: Christian Ethics and Moral Psychology (T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics)

by Andrew J. B. Cameron

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 2023

Overview

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.

Key Features

• Surveys an older wisdom in how to manage the intersection between emotion and ethics
• Explores a vision for a better set of affections to grow within and among us
• Overviews recent trends in moral psychology against a recent historical and contemporary cultural backdrop

Contents

Part I: Emotions and moral psychology

• The amoral roots of modern ‘emotion’
• Computerising ethics or satiating voracity?
• Parsing the soul: some directions in moral psychology

Part II: Hebrew and Christian beginnings in an account of moral affections

• The pursuit of wisdom: a journey of biblical proportions
• Desire and culpability: a tragedy of biblical proportions

Part III: Christian reflections in an account of affection

• An Augustinian synthesis: the ordering of disorder
• Aquinas’s refinement: the fully Christian organism
• Coakley’s insight: the ground of all desire
• Chittister’s gift: an everyday ‘school’
• Affections, passions, and modern life

Product Details

• Title: The Logic of Love
• Author: Andrew J. B. Cameron
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Pages: 259
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• ISBNs: 9780567707178, 9780567707161, 0567707164, 0567707172
• Resource ID: LLS:LOGICOFLOVE
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-25T17:18:09Z

About Andrew J. B. Cameron

Andrew J. B. Cameron is the Director of St Mark’s National Theological Centre, and an Associate Professor in the School of Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia.