Joined-up Life
A Christian account of how ethics works
Description
'Finding our best humanity in Jesus Christ' is the key theme of Andrew Cameron's fresh exploration, in which he seeks to understand ethics as springing from Jesus, and to show how identifying with Jesus Christ brings order and clarity to human life. 'In a world where everyone is an expert on right and wrong, this book tries to show how Jesus unifies the best of what you hear. He joins up messy lives.'
Cameron's accessible, coherent and innovative analysis is divided into seven parts. Each part contains several self-contained chapters that address some specific aspect of Christian thinking about ethics and life, and each chapter is cross-referenced to other key chapters. The chapters may be read in sequence, or dipped into in any order.
• Part 1 considers some common ways of thinking about ethics (e.g. rules, rights, values and results).
• Part 2 considers some arenas we are unaware of, but which have a huge impact on how we live.
• Part 3 shows how Jesus Christ becomes a better main category than ethics for determining who we are and what we do.
• Part 4 builds a 'unified field', shaped in response to Jesus Christ, by which we can orient ourselves to whatever is around us.
• Part 5 examines some means by which we approach the daily details of life within this overall orientation.
• Part 6 looks at some aspects of our life-package, or 'vocation', to see how they are located within the 'unified field'.
• Part 7 visits some areas of discussion that cause great disagreement between Christians and others, and tries to show why.
Cameron's accessible, coherent and innovative analysis is divided into seven parts. Each part contains several self-contained chapters that address some specific aspect of Christian thinking about ethics and life, and each chapter is cross-referenced to other key chapters. The chapters may be read in sequence, or dipped into in any order.
• Part 1 considers some common ways of thinking about ethics (e.g. rules, rights, values and results).
• Part 2 considers some arenas we are unaware of, but which have a huge impact on how we live.
• Part 3 shows how Jesus Christ becomes a better main category than ethics for determining who we are and what we do.
• Part 4 builds a 'unified field', shaped in response to Jesus Christ, by which we can orient ourselves to whatever is around us.
• Part 5 examines some means by which we approach the daily details of life within this overall orientation.
• Part 6 looks at some aspects of our life-package, or 'vocation', to see how they are located within the 'unified field'.
• Part 7 visits some areas of discussion that cause great disagreement between Christians and others, and tries to show why.
Table of contents
- Preface
- Part 1: Awareness
- 1. What is ‘ethics’?
- 2. Deciding
- 3. Rules and codes
- 4. Rights
- 5. Values
- 6. Results
- Part 2: Unawareness
- 7. Desire
- 8. Systems of inclusion
- 9. ‘Flesh’
- 10. Complexity
- 11. Are the psychopaths right?
- Part 3: Jesus verses ethics
- 12. A Christ-powered planet
- 13. ‘Following’ Jesus
- 14. True ‘identity’
- 15. How the cross changes us
- 16. How resurrection changes us
- 17. Working with the Spirit
- 18. Communities in Christ
- 19. The ‘story arc’ of the Bible
- 20. Old Testament laws
- Part 4: Five things that matter
- 21. The character of God
- 22. Creation and ‘moral order’
- 23. Commands that reveal
- 24. A new future
- 25. Jesus-shaped community
- 26. A ‘unified field’
- 27. Ethics secular and Christian
- Part 5: Living our lives
- 28. Drunkenness and rage
- 29. Forgiving and reconciling
- 30. Virtues and vices
- 31. Freedom
- 32. Imitating Jesus
- 33. Obedience to God
- 34. Life in churches
- 35. Life outside churches
- Part 6: Life-packages
- 36. Singleness
- 37. Marriage
- 38. Having children
- 39. Friendship
- 40. Sustainable care
- 41. Work
- Part 7: Six hotspots
- 42. Women
- 43. Sex
- 44. Homosexuality
- 45. Bioethics
- 46. Diversity
- 47. Imposing it
- Afterword: dilemmas and discernment
Additional Information
| Author | Andrew Cameron |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781844745159 |
| Dimensions | 157mm x 234mm |
| Pages | 336 |
| Publisher | IVP |
| Format | Paperback |
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