The Logic of Love: Christian Ethics and Moral Psychology

by Andrew J. B. Cameron

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567707161
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/29/2022
Series:	T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	685 KB

About the Author

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.
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

Table of Contents

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