Moral Passion and Christian Ethics

✍ Scribed by Robin Gill

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 244
• Series: New Studies in Christian Ethics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, Robin Gill argues that moral passion and rational ethical deliberation are not enemies, and that moral passion often lurks behind many apparently rational ethical commitments. He also contends that though moral passion is a key component of truly selfless moral action, without rational ethical deliberation it can also be extremely dangerous. Gill maintains that a reanalysis of moral passion is overdue. He inspects the gap between the 'purely rational' accounts of ethics provided by some moral philosophers and the normative positions that they espouse and/or the moral actions that they pursue. He also contends that Christian ethicists have not been adept at identifying their own implicit moral passion or at explaining why it is that doctrinal positions generate passionately held moral conclusions. Using a range of disciplines, including cognitive science and moral psychology, alongside the more usual disciplines of moral philosophy and religious ethics, Gill also makes links with moral passion in other world faith traditions.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Works Cited
Chapter 1 Moral Passion in New Studies in Christian Ethics
Christian Ethics Learning from Secular Disciplines
Christian Ethics Deepening Secular Concepts
Distinctively Theological Justifications for Moral Choices and Acts
Implications for Moral Passion
Works Cited
Chapter 2 Is Moral Passion Germane Just to Theologians?
Ethical Contributions to Theology
Ethical Contributions to the Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Lectures
Implications for Moral Passion
Works Cited
Chapter 3 Christian Public Ethics
Three Books
Altruism and Sociobiology
A Moral Gap in Secular Ethics
A Provisional Map
Works Cited
Chapter 4 Faith as an Option
The Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx
The Axial Age
Works Cited
Chapter 5 Moral Outrage
Passionate Anger in the Bhagavad Gita
Moral Outrage and Moral Objectivity
Morality and Religiously Inspired Violence
Anger in the Synoptic Gospels
Jesus and Moral Outrage
Works Cited
Chapter 6 Collective Moral Passion within Faith Traditions
Constructed or Discovered?
Collective Effervescence in Faith Traditions
Sustaining Moral Families
Parents and Children
Mutual Obligations, Duties and Responsibilities
The Collective Passions and Bonds of Faith Traditions
Works Cited
Chapter 7 Moral Passion as Enemy-Love
The Principle of Universalisability
The Golden Rule
The Two Dominical Commands
Love Your Enemies
Pope John Paul II and Ann Odre
Gordon Wilson following Betty Williams and Mairéad Corrigan
Nelson Mandela
Works Cited
A Final Word
Select Bibliography in Christian Ethics
Index