Fallenness and flourishing / Hud Hudson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Hud, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in analytic theology.

Oxford studies in analytic theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Happiness--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Happiness.

Pessimism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This text opens with defenses of the philosophy of pessimism, first on secular grounds and then again on distinctively Christian grounds with reference to the fallenness of human beings. It then details traditional Christian reasons for optimism with which this philosophy of pessimism can be qualified.

Contents:

Cover

Fallenness and Flourishing

Copyright

Dedication

Preface: In Wandering Mazes Lost

Acknowledgments

Contents

Chapter 1: Some False Step

1. It Was the Best of Worlds, It Was the Worst of Times

2. The Kingdom of Animals

3. This Quintessence of Dust

4. Society and the Institutions of Cruelty

5. World Religions-Seven Stories for Everyone

Story One

Story Two

Story Three

Story Four

Story Five

Story Six

One More-Story Seven

6. Art, Literature, Music, Philosophy, and the Wisdom Traditions

7. The Fall and Original Sin

8. The Doctrine of (Optimistic) Pessimism

Reason One-Salvation from Bondage to Sin

Reason Two-Original Sin as Pedagogue

9. Felix Culpa

Reason Three-O Fortunate Fall!

In Summary

Chapter 2: Thus Mammon Spake

1. Cannot We His Light Imitate When We Please?

2. Analytic Methodology

3. Happiness, Well-Being, and Interpreting Mammon's Advice

4. The Question of Well-Being, Three Kinds of Skepticism, and Mammon's Restriction

5. Hedonism and Desire-Fulfillment Theories

Hedonism

Desire-Fulfillment Theories

6. Perfectionism and Objective-List Theories

Perfectionism

Objective-List Theories

7. The Question of Happiness, Two Kinds of Skepticism, and Mammon's Restriction

8. Hedonism, Life Satisfaction, and Psychic Affirmation

Life Satisfaction

Psychic Affirmation

9. A Curiosity about Theories of Well-Being and Happiness

Chapter 3: Libido Sentiendi, Libido Sciendi, Libido Dominandi

1. Secular Suspicions

2. Noetic Effects of Sin: Self-Love and Self-Deception

3. A Second Battle Lost

4. The Path from Happiness to Unhappiness

5. Steeped in Sin-Six Stories for Everyone

6. Sloth, the Sin of Sadness

7. Taking Stock.

Chapter 4: The Masks of Sloth

1. Cellar Dwellers

2. Boredom and Diversion

3. The Absurd-Tragedy, Meaning-Making, and Defiance

The Absurd and the Tragic Sense of Life

The Absurd and Making One's Own Meaning

The Absurd and Defiance

4. That Sleep of Death

5. Lawful Evil and the Demonic

6. The Lopsided Aesthete

7. Most Respectfully Return Him the Ticket

8. Guilt, Shame, Mediocrity

Chapter 5: Ye Cannot Serve God and Mammon

1. Recovered Paradise

2. The Virtue of Obedience, Christ's Temptations, and Perseverance

3. Obedience and Well-Being-A Story for Everyone

A Story-The Melancholy Kingdom of Nodland

4. The Problem of Ignorance

5. The Problem of Exclusivity

6. The Obstacle of Sin and Caring for the Vulnerable

The Obstacle of Sin

Caring for the Vulnerable

A Proposal for Attending to the Obstacle of Sin and to Caring for the Vulnerable

7. In Summary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-258895-8

0-19-188335-2

0-19-258894-X

OCLC:

1243539355