Moral Passion and Christian Ethics

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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. 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