The logic of love
Subtitle: Christian ethics and moral psychology
By: Andrew J. B. Cameron
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: 2022
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780567707147
Subjects: Christian theology; Theology
Description: 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. .
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Table of contents: title: <b>Part One: </b><b>Emotions and moral psychology</b> <b> </b><b>Chapter One: </b> The amoral roots of modern 'emotion'  <b>Chapter Two:</b> Computerising ethics or satiating voracity?   <b>Chapter Three:</b> Parsing the soul: some directions in moral psychology  <b>Part Two: Hebrew and Christian beginnings in an account of moral affections</b>  <b>Chapter Four:</b> The pursuit of wisdom: a journey of biblical proportions  <b>Chapter Five: </b> Desire and culpability: a tragedy of biblical proportions  <b>Part Three: Christian reflections in an account of affection</b>  <b>Chapter Six: </b> An Augustinian synthesis: the ordering of disorder  <b>Chapter Seven: </b> Aquinas's refinement: the fully Christian organism <b> </b><b>Chapter Eight: </b> Coakley's insight: the ground of all desire <b> </b><b>Chapter Nine: </b> Chittister's gift: an everyday 'school' <b> </b><b>Chapter Ten: </b> Affections, passions, and modern life <b> </b>Bibliography Index.