Part One: Emotions and moral psychologyChapter One:
The amoral roots of modern ‘emotion’
Chapter Two:
Computerising ethics or satiating voracity?
Chapter Three:
Parsing the soul: some directions in moral psychology
Part Two: Hebrew and Christian beginnings in an account of moral affectionsChapter Four:
The pursuit of wisdom: a journey of biblical proportions
Chapter Five:
Desire and culpability: a tragedy of biblical proportions
Part Three: Christian reflections in an account of affectionChapter Six:
An Augustinian synthesis: the ordering of disorder
Chapter Seven:
Aquinas’s refinement: the fully Christian organism
Chapter Eight:
Coakley’s insight: the ground of all desire
Chapter Nine:
Chittister’s gift: an everyday ‘school’
Chapter Ten:
Affections, passions, and modern life
Bibliography
Index