The Theological Roots of Christian Gratitude [Hardcover]

This book asserts that gratitude for God's gift of creation grounds the insight of positive psychology that grateful persons act pro-socially. Kenneth Wilson posits that a sense of gratitude encourages sacrificial service and reveals all behavior to have at heart an essential moral quality.

Its overall aim is to contribute to the renewal of British character and virtues in the context of family, education and the professions. & there is much in this book which is profoundly illuminating about human relationships. (Ann Loades, Theology, Vol. 119 (5), September-October, 2016)

Kenneth Wilson, OBE is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Values, School of Education, College of Social Sciences, the University of Birmingham,UK, Visiting Fellow of the University of Chichester, UK, and Senior Research Fellow of Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK.' This book, while rooted in a theological conception of gratitude, relates it helpfully to two other current discourses: the recent psychological/philosophical discourse on gratitude and the recent discourse on professionalism, professional practice, and professional virtues. This is a worthwhile enterprise, cleverly executed by the author. A thought-provoking and inspiring book. - Kristj?n Kristj?nsson, Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham, UK

'Kenneth Wilson stresses the personally ameliorative character of gratitude: the emotion's ability to transform us by a happy self-transcendence and by binding giver and receiver in a benevolent relationship. He astutely finds the Christian theological framework, with its message of a gracious, compassionate, and forgiving Creator at the ground of our being, to be an extraordinarily fitting foundation for living a life of gratitude.' - Robert Roberts, Baylor University, USA