Oliver O'Donovan's moral theology : tensions and triumphs / Samuel Tranter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tranter, Samuel, author.

Series:

T&T Clark enquiries in theological ethics

Standardized Title:

Without elimination

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

O'Donovan, Oliver.

Christian ethics--Anglican authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : T&T Clark, 2020.

Summary:

"This book offers the first sustained, full-length treatment of the wide-ranging work of major Anglican theologian Oliver O'Donovan. Analysing key texts written across forty years, including Resurrection and Moral Order, The Desire of the Nations, and Ethics as Theology, Samuel Tranter focuses in particular on what he argues is an area of real tension in O'Donovan's evolving vision of moral theology: the relationship between eschatology and ethics. This tension is traced as it plays out with regard to a number of important topics in O'Donovan's writing and contemporary discussion, including natural law, divine command, and human flourishing, as well as the distinctiveness or otherwise of Christian moral reasoning. Moreover, it is located alongside the broader doctrinal features of O'Donovan's project, in connection to themes such as creation, sin, and redemption, as well as to particular questions about the relationship between the cross and the resurrection. This volume also advances the reception of O'Donovan's thought by establishing and evaluating his influence upon a range of Christian ethicists and political theologians writing today (such as Luke Bretherton, Gilbert Meilaender, Jean Porter, and Brent Waters), and by engaging with critical readings of O'Donovan (such as those by Stanley Hauerwas and Gerald McKenny). Furthermore, in conversation with these scholars among an ecumenical cast of voices, Tranter offers an assessment of how O'Donovan's proposals may be appropriated and amended as a resource for theology and ethics going forward"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Groundwork : 'the natural ethic'

Topography : Resurrection and moral order, 'the objective reality'

Contour : Resurrection and moral order, 'the subjective reality'

Territory : The desire of the nations & The ways of judgment

Remapping : ethics as theology.

Notes:

Slight revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Durham Univeristy, 2018, under the title: Without elimination : with and beyond Oliver O'Donovan on eschatology and ethics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780567694621

0567694623

9780567694614

0567694615

9780567694607

0567694607

OCLC:

1158503622