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Joined-up life

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, 2012
ISBN: 9781844747436
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’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 offers a stimulating reappraisal of our cluttered, tumultuous lives and encourages us to see life through a different lens.

List of fi gures 8
Preface 9
PART 1 AWARENESS
11. What is ‘ethics’? 17
12. Deciding 23
13. Rules and codes 26
14. Rights 31
15. Values 36
16. Results 41
PART 2 UNAWARENESS
17. Desire 49
18. Systems of inclusion 56
19. ‘Flesh’ 65
10. Complexity 70
11. Are the psychopaths right? 75
PART 3 JESUS VERSUS ETHICS
12. A Christ-powered planet 83
13. ‘Following’ Jesus 88
14. True ‘identity’ 94
15. How the cross changes us 100
16. How resurrection changes us 111
17. Working with the Spirit 115
18. Communities in Christ 120
19. The ‘story arc’ of the Bible 128
20. Old Testament laws 135
PART 4 FIVE THINGS THAT MATTER
21. The character of God 143
22. Creation and ‘moral order’ 148
23. Commands that reveal 156
24. A new future 162
25. Jesus-shaped community 168
26. A ’unifi ed fi eld’ 173
27. Ethics secular and Christian 178
PART 5 LIVING OUR LIVES
28. Drunkenness and rage 185
29. Forgiving and reconciling 190
30. Virtues and vices 194
31. Freedom 203
32. Imitating Jesus 210
33. Obedience to God 214
34. Life in churches 218
35. Life outside churches 224
PART 6 LIFE-PACKAGES
36. Singleness 233
37. Marriage 240
38. Having children 246
39. Friendship 253
40. Sustainable care 260
41. Work 269
PART 7 SIX HOTSPOTS
42. Women
43. Sex
44. Homosexuality
45. Bioethics
46. Diversity
47. Imposing it
Afterword: dilemmas and discernment
Index of Scripture references
Index of subjects and names

  • Title: Joined-up life
  • Author: Andrew Cameron
  • Publisher: IVP
  • Print Publication Date: 2012
  • Logos Release Date: 2022
  • Pages: 336
  • Language: English
  • Resources: 1
  • Format: Digital › Ebook
  • ISBNs: 9781844747436, 9781844745166, 1844745163, 1844747433
  • Resource ID: LLS:9781844747436
  • Resource Type: Monograph
  • Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T22:41:05Z

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  1. Mal Walker

    Mal Walker

    12/22/2022

    Andrew Cameron's work provides a short introduction to ethics from a reformed tradition. Seeking to show how ethics spring from Jesus, Cameron wants the reader to see how 'identifying with Jesus Christ brings order and clarity to human life.' The Good: The content of the book is well thought out, and engages with the major ethical frameworks and players across a variety of denominations and history. As an introduction, it serves its purpose well, with plenty of additional resources for further reading provided. I recommend it to anyone who is seeking to think through how Jesus, through his word, shapes how we think and act in this life. The Bad: No major concerns with the content, my issues (and hence only 3 stars) are with the formatting and presentation of the eBook. The physical copy of the book makes a lot of use of italics, bold, dot points etc which haven't been well carried through into the digital copy. Paragraphs are not distinguished well, and chapter headings are directly connected to the last paragraph of the previous chapter. Overall the reading experience isn't great, and I would recommend the physical copy unless you must have the digital.
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