Christian Ethics and the Moral Psychologies

Christian Ethics and the Moral Psychologies
Author: Don S. Browning
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006-05-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780802831712

Interest in psychology permeates our culture, with psychological solutions advanced for a host of moral dilemmas. How should ethically minded Christians include insights from such disciplines as psychoanalysis, cognitive moral development, and neuroscience in their theological reflection? Don Browning offers a serious proposal for combining these disciplines with the best in ethical reflection from a Christian standpoint. Along the way, he introduces readers to the moral psychology work of Sigmund Freud, Carol Gilligan, Antonio Damasio, and others, opening up a dialogue between their work and the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. Browning also recognizes the potential limits of the conversation between Christian ethics and the moral psychologies, pointing out where they must diverge.

Character and Moral Psychology

Character and Moral Psychology
Author: Christian B. Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2014
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199674361

Christian Miller explores ethical implications of his new theory of character, which holds that our characters are made up of mixed traits with some morally positive and some morally negative aspects. He examines whether judgements of character are systematically erroneous, and assesses the challenge to virtue ethics from scepticism about virtue.

Go and Do Likewise

Go and Do Likewise
Author: William Spohn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2000-09-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441190678

What does Jesus have to do with ethics? There are two brief answers given by believers: "everything" and "not much." While evangelical or fundamentalist Christians would find authoritative guidance in the words and commands of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament, many mainstream Christian ethicists would say that Jesus is too concrete or narrowly particular to have any direct import for ethics.In this book, Williams Spohn takes a middle way, showing how Jesus is the "concrete universal" of Christian ethics. By forming a bridge from the lives of contemporary Christians to the words and deeds of Jesus, Jesus' story as a whole exemplifies moral perception, motivation and Christian identity.In addition, Spohn shows how the practices of Christian spirituality--specifically prayer, service, and community--train the imagination and reorient emotions to produce a character and a way of life consonant with Christian New Testament moral teaching.

Christian Ethics and Moral Philosophy

Christian Ethics and Moral Philosophy
Author: Craig A. Boyd
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493415506

This introductory textbook presents Christian philosophical and theological approaches to ethics. Combining their expertise in philosophy and theology, the authors explain the beliefs, values, and practices of various Christian ethical viewpoints, addressing biblical teachings as well as traditional ethical theories that contribute to informed moral decision-making. Each chapter begins with Words to Watch and includes a relevant case study on a vexing ethical issue, such as caring for the environment, human sexuality, abortion, capital punishment, war, and euthanasia. End-of-chapter reflection questions, illustrations, and additional information tables are also included.

Renewing Moral Theology

Renewing Moral Theology
Author: Daniel A. Westberg
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-05-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 083082460X

Moral theology, rooted in Thomas Aquinas, has long found its home in the Catholic and Anglican traditions, and in recent years it has become more familiar through the perspective known as virtue ethics. Renewing Moral Theology unfolds an ethical perspective that is Thomistic in structure, evangelical in conviction and Anglican in ethos.

The Physical Nature of Christian Life

The Physical Nature of Christian Life
Author: Warren S. Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2012-06-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0521515939

This book explores the implications of recent insights in modern neuroscience that attribute mental capacities often ascribed to a disembodied soul instead to the functions of the brain and body in collaboration with social experience. It explores how this insight changes the traditional "care of souls," encouraging more attention to fostering spiritual growth through a social and communal focus.

Character

Character
Author: Christian B. Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2015
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190204605

This collection contains some of the best new work being done on the subject of character in philosophy, theology, and psychology. From a virtual reality simulation of the Milgram shock experiments to an understanding of the virtue of modesty in Muslim societies, these 31 chapters significantly advance our understanding of character.

Moral Psychology, Volume 4

Moral Psychology, Volume 4
Author: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2014-02-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0262321491

Leading philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists address issues of moral responsibility and free will, drawing on new findings from empirical science. Traditional philosophers approached the issues of free will and moral responsibility through conceptual analysis that seldom incorporated findings from empirical science. In recent decades, however, striking developments in psychology and neuroscience have captured the attention of many moral philosophers. This volume of Moral Psychology offers essays, commentaries, and replies by leading philosophers and scientists who explain and use empirical findings from psychology and neuroscience to illuminate old and new problems regarding free will and moral responsibility. The contributors—who include such prominent scholars as Patricia Churchland, Daniel Dennett, and Michael Gazzaniga—consider issues raised by determinism, compatibilism, and libertarianism; epiphenomenalism, bypassing, and naturalism; naturalism; and rationality and situationism. These writings show that although science does not settle the issues of free will and moral responsibility, it has enlivened the field by asking novel, profound, and important questions. Contributors Roy F. Baumeister, Tim Bayne, Gunnar Björnsson, C. Daryl Cameron, Hanah A. Chapman, William A. Cunningham, Patricia S. Churchland, Christopher G. Coutlee, Daniel C. Dennett, Ellen E. Furlong, Michael S. Gazzaniga, Patrick Haggard, Brian Hare, Lasana T. Harris, John-Dylan Haynes, Richard Holton, Scott A. Huettel, Robert Kane, Victoria K. Lee, Neil Levy, Alfred R. Mele, Christian Miller, Erman Misirlisoy, P. Read Montague, Thomas Nadelhoffer, Eddy Nahmias, William T. Newsome, B. Keith Payne, Derk Pereboom, Adina L. Roskies, Laurie R. Santos, Timothy Schroeder, Michael N. Shadlen, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chandra Sripada, Christopher L. Suhler, Manuel Vargas, Gideon Yaffe

Psychology and Christianity

Psychology and Christianity
Author: Eric L. Johnson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2009-08-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830876618

How are Christians to understand and undertake the discipline of psychology? This question has been of keen interest because of the importance we place on a correct understanding of human nature.This collection of essays edited by Eric Johnson and Stanton Jones offers four different models for the relationship between Christianity and psychology.

Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
Author: D. Stephen Long
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2010-07-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199568863

This book provides both a short history of Christian ethics and looks at itsbasic sources as they arise from Judaism, Greco-Roman ethics, andChristianity