The Logic of Love

Christian Ethics and Moral Psychology

Rev'd Dr Andrew J. B. Cameron (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2024
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-567-70717-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	0-567-70717-2 / 0567707172
ISBN-13	978-0-567-70717-8 / 9780567707178
Zustand	Neuware