Bøger af Oliver O'Donovan

"The 2021 Gifford Lectures by Oliver O'Donovan evaluate the state of ethics as a discipline and its relationship to theology"--

The Thirty-Nine Articles, together with the Book of Common Prayer, form the foundation of Anglican theology. Yet there are very few extended treatments of them. Oliver O'Donovan relates the Articles to the exhilarating and troubled century in which they took shape. He also shows how the distinctive insights and values of a past age relate to the demands of today's world. 'What I propose in this case - is not to talk solely about the Articles, but to talk about God, mankind (sic!), and redemption, the central matters of the Christian faith, and to take the Tudor authors with me as companions in discussion. Two voices will be speaking - each raising the questions that Christian faith in his time forces upon him.' Here is a new edition of his book on one of the key texts of Anglican identity by one of the UK's leading theologians. The book has been out of print for some time and there have been repeated calls for a new edition with a new introduction which engages with more recent developments and offers the text to a new generation.

The primal destruction of man was self-love. There is no one who does not love himself; but one must search for the right love and avoid the warped. Indeed you did not love yourself when you did not love the God who made you. These three sentences set side by side show why the problem of self-love in St. Augustine of Hippo constitutes a problem. Self-love is loving God; it is also hating God. Self-love is common to all men; it is restricted to those who love God. Mutually incompatible assertions about self-love jostle one another and demand to be reconciled.--from the IntroductionIn saying that self-love finds its only true expression in love of God Augustine is formulating in one of many possible ways a principle fundamental to his metaphysical and ethical outlook, namely that moral obligation derives from an obligation to God which is at the same time a call to self-fulfillment.--from the ConclusionSome thinkers never become unimportant; some topics always repay renewed attention. St. Augustine is such a thinker; self-love is such a topic. It is, therefore, good that Oliver O'Donovan's analysis of the problem of self-love in Augustine's thought is again in print and available for study. It is a careful unraveling of the development of Augustine's thinking on self-love, and it is also an important guide for our own attempts to probe various aspects of one of the most complicated problems in the moral life.--Gilbert MeilaenderDuesenberg Professor in Christian EthicsValparaiso University, and author of The Way That Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life (2006)Few people in the last thirty years have done more than Oliver O'Donovan to make Augustine a living, breathing source for Christian moral reflection. With the increasing recognition that deep confusion about love lies at the heart of modernity's pathos and with renewed attention being paid to the nature of love in all its personal, social, and ontological dimensions, the recovery of Augustine's profound insights has become an urgent matter. The re-issue of this seminal work is thus both timely and important. --Michael HanbyAssistant Professor of Theology, Honors CollegeBaylor University, and author of Augustine and Modernity (2003). Oliver O'Donovan is Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of numerous books including Resurrection and Moral Order (1986), The Desire of Nations (1996), and The Ways of Judgment (2005).

This is the second of three volumes in Oliver O'Donovan's masterful "Ethics as Theology" project. In his first volume -- Self, World, and Time -- O'Donovan discusses Christian ethics as an intellectual discipline in relation to the humanities, especially philosophy, theology, and behavioral studies, and in relation to the Christian gospel.In Finding and Seeking O'Donovan traces the logic of moral thought from self-awareness to decision through the virtues of faith, hope, and love. Blending biblical, historico-theological, and contemporary ideas in its comprehensive survey, this second volume continues O'Donovan's splendid study in ethics as theology and adds significantly to his previous theoretical reflection on Christian ethics.

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