Entering into Rest
Author | : O’Donovan, Oliver |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2017 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780802873590 |
ISBN-13 | : 0802873596 |
Rating | : 4/5 (596 Downloads) |
Download or read book Entering into Rest written by O’Donovan, Oliver and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver O'Donovan's Ethics as Theology project began withSelf, World, and Time, an "induction" into Christian ethics as ordered reflection on moral thinking within the life of faith. Volume 2, Finding and Seeking, shifted the focus to the movement of moral thought from a first consciousness of agency to the time that determines the moment of decision. In this third and final volume of his magnum opus, O'Donovan turns his attention to the forward horizon with which moral thinking must engage. Moral experience, he argues, is necessarily two-directional, looking both back at responsibility and forward at aims. The Pauline triad of theological virtues (faith, love, and hope) describes a form of responsibility, and its climax in the sovereignty of love opens the way to a definitive teleology. Entering into Restoffers O'Donovan's mature reflections on questions that have engaged him throughout his career and provides a synoptic view of many of his main themes."