Oliver O'Donovan
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Oliver Michael Timothy O'Donovan is a British Anglican priest and academic, known for his work in the field of Christian ethics. He has also made contributions to political theology, both contemporary and historical. He was Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford from 1982 to 2006, and Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University of Edinburgh from 2006 to 2013.
Oliver O'Donovan's Published Works
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- The desire of the nations : rediscovering the roots of political theology (1999) (111)
- Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics (1986) (107)
- The Just War Revisited (2003) (80)
- Persons: The Difference Between Someone' and Something' (2007) (80)
- New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology (1995) (68)
- From Irenaeus to Grotius : a sourcebook in Christian political thought 100-1625 (1999) (47)
- Begotten or made (1984) (45)
- The Problem of Self-Love in St. Augustine (1980) (41)
- The Ways Of Judgment (2005) (39)
- THE LANGUAGE OF RIGHTS AND CONCEPTUAL HISTORY (2009) (31)
- USUS AND FRUITIO IN AUGUSTINE, DE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA I1 (1982) (30)
- The Desire of the Nations (1996) (28)
- Bonds of imperfection : Christian politics, past and present (2004) (23)
- The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-radical Orthodoxy (2013) (20)
- Augustine's City of God XIX and Western Political Thought (1987) (20)
- On the Thirty-nine Articles: A Conversation with Tudor Christianity (1986) (18)
- The Loss of a Sense of Place (1989) (13)
- New Dictionary of Christian Ethics & Pastoral Theology (1994) (12)
- Common Objects of Love: Moral Reflection and the Shaping of Community (2002) (10)
- The Republic of Grace: Augustinian Thoughts for Dark Times (2011) (9)
- The ways of judgment : the Bampton lectures, 2003 (2005) (7)
- Liturgy and Ethics (1993) (6)
- Peace and certainty: A theological essay on deterrence (1989) (6)
- Prayer and Morality in the Sermon on the Mount (2009) (4)
- Response To Respondents: Behold, the Lamb! (1998) (4)
- Political theology, tradition and modernity (1999) (4)
- The Political Thought of the Book of Revelation (1986) (4)
- Judgment, Tradition and Reason: A Response (2008) (3)
- States, Nations, and Borders: Christianity and Territorial Right (2003) (3)
- Deliberation, History and Reading: A Response to Schweiker and Wolterstorff (2001) (2)
- What Kind of Community is the Church?: The Richard Hooker Lectures 2005 (2007) (2)
- The Just War Revisited: War by other means (2003) (2)
- The Conjoined Twins: Transcript of the Speeches Given at the BAFS Annual Dinner on 28 February 2002 (2002) (2)
- John Finnis On Moral Absolutes (1993) (2)
- Towards an Interpretation of Biblical Ethics (1976) (2)
- Paul Ramsey (1913-88) (1988) (1)
- Luke Bretherton, Hospitality and Holiness (2009) (1)
- We acknowledge with thanks receipt of the following titles. Inclusion in this list neither implies nor precludes subsequent review (2010) (1)
- BOOK 2 (2001) (1)
- Keeping Body and Soul Together (2002) (1)
- Charles Mathewes, A Theology of Public Life (2011) (1)
- Pride’s Progress (2015) (1)
- Book Review: De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra (2003) (1)
- The Concept of Publicity (2000) (1)
- Book Review: Natural and Divine Law (2001) (1)
- Perception, Transcendence, and the Knowledge of God (2018) (1)
- The Future of Theological Ethics (2012) (1)
- Book Review: John M. Rist, Augustine Deformed: Love, Sin and Freedom in the Western Moral Tradition (2016) (1)
- The Object of Theological Ethics (2007) (1)
- AFTER NOAH (2021) (1)
- Apophatic Unity: On the Elusiveness of Radner's Church (2014) (0)
- Book Review : Christ, Justice and Peace: towards a theology of the state, by Eberhard Jüngel, translated by D. Bruce Hamill and Alan J. Torrance. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1992. xxix + 93pp. £8.95 (1993) (0)
- Book Review : The Love Commnnd nicnts: essays in Christian Ethics and Mornl Philosophy, edited by Edmund N. Santurri & William Werpehowski. Washington D.C., Georgetown University Press, 1992. 330pp. US$35 pb (1994) (0)
- The Knowledge and Love of God (2018) (0)
- Existence and Love of God (2018) (0)
- Faith before Hope and Love (2014) (0)
- Peace and War (1985) (0)
- Nigel Biggar, Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation (2016) (0)
- The Freedom of the Family (2008) (0)
- The Freedom of the Family: An Ecumenical Contribution to a European Debate (2006) (0)
- Representation (2000) (0)
- Learning from the pandemic (2021) (0)
- From Present Self to Future Self (2018) (0)
- Augustine’s Treatment of the Great Psalm in advance (2022) (0)
- On Homicide and Commentary on Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae IIa IIae q64, by Francisco de Vitoria (1486-1546). Translated by John Doyle. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press (London: Eurospan), 1997. 280 pp. pb. £27.95. ISBN 0-8746-2237-9 (1999) (0)
- Book Review : The Truth Shall Make You Free: Confrontations, by Gustavo Gutierrez, translated from the Spanish by Matthew J. O'Connell. Maryknoll NY, Orbis, 1990. xii + 204 pp. US $29.95 (cl), $12.95 (paperback) (1991) (0)
- Edward LeRoy Long Jr. A Survey of Recent Christian Ethics. Pp. 215. (Oxford University Press 1983.) £13.50. (1984) (0)
- The Missing Frontier (2018) (0)
- Book Reviews : Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World, by John von Heyking. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. No price. ISBN 0-8262-1349-9 (2002) (0)
- Book Reviews : A Global Ethic and Global Responsibilities: Two Declarations, edited by Hans Küng and Helmut Schmidt. London: SCM, 1998. 152 pp. pb. £9.95. ISBN 0-334-02740-3 (2000) (0)
- Response to N. T. Wright (2002) (0)
- Theological Writings (2021) (0)
- Book Review : The Limits of Love: Some Theological Explorations, by Gilbert Meilander. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987.156pp. US $18.75 (1991) (0)
- Book Review: Church of Scotland, Theological Commission on Same-Sex Relationships and the Ministry and Church of England, Report of the House of Bishops Working Group on Human Sexuality (The Pilling Report) (2014) (0)
- The Politics of Virtue: Post‐Liberalism and the Human Future by John Milbank and Adrian Pabst (London and New York: Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd., 2016), x + 385 pp. (2017) (0)
- The Just War Revisited: Immoral weapons (2003) (0)
- News of Books (2000) (0)
- The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience by Simeon Zahl (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), x + 261 pp. (2021) (0)
- Book Reviews : Kierkegaard: A Biography, by Alastair Hannay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 496 pp. £30. hb. ISBN 0521-65077-2 (2003) (0)
- John Webster on Dogmatics and Ethics (2019) (0)
- The Church of England’s exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage (2016) (0)
- James K.A.Smith, Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology, Cultural Liturgies vol. 3. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2017, xvii + 233pp. $22.99 (2020) (0)
- Some Reactions from the Ground (2019) (0)
- Book Review: Infidels and Empires in a New World Order: Early Modern Spanish Contributions to International Legal Thought by David M. Lantigua (2022) (0)
- Book Review: Duncan B. Forrester, Forrester on Christian Ethics and Practical Theology: Collected Writings on Christianity, India, and the Social Order (2014) (0)
- Book Reviews : Dependence and Freedom: the moral thought of Horace Bushnell, by David W Haddorff. Lanham, Md., University Press of America (London: Eurospan), 1994. hb. 194pp. £41.95 (1996) (0)
- Book Review: ONTOPOLITICAL CONVERSATIONS Kristen Deede Johnson, Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism (Cambridge: CUP, 2007. £50. pp. 276. ISBN 0—521—87003—8) (2008) (0)
- The Just War Revisited: Can war crimes trials be morally satisfying? (2003) (0)
- 2011 Natural Law Lecture: The Path (2011) (0)
- The Just War Revisited: Dedicatory preface (2003) (0)
- O'Donovan's The Ways of Judgment (2009) (0)
- Community Repentance? (1997) (0)
- Person and Conscience: Augustinian Strands in John-Paul's Ethics (2020) (0)
- Giving and Promising (2018) (0)
- The Just War Revisited: Counter-insurgency war (2003) (0)
- Response: A Theology of the Economy? (2015) (0)
- Book Reviews : After MacIntyre: Critical Perspectives on the Work of Alasdair MacIntyre, edited by John Horton and Susan Mendus. University of Notre Dame Press/Eurospan,1994. x + 322 pp. hb. £35.95 (1996) (0)
- Law, moderation and forgiveness (2001) (0)
- Resurrectio Carnis (2018) (0)
- By what right do we own things? A justification of property ownership from an Augustinian tradition (2011) (0)
- Book Reviews : Biology and Christian Ethics, by Stephen R. L. Clark. Cambridge University Press, 2000. 331 pp. hb. ISBN 0521-561310 pb. ISBN 0521-567688 (2002) (0)
- Rowan Williams: The New Archbishop of Canterbury a Symposium: Archbishop Rowan Williams (2003) (0)
- Public Theology and the Missiological Task (2006) (0)
- Book Reviews: Systematic Theology (2004) (0)
- Book Reviews : The Death Penalty: For and Against, by Louis P. Pojman and Jeffrey Reiman. Lanham, Maryland, and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. 178 pp. hb. no price. ISBN 0-8476-8632-9, pb. £13.95. ISBN 0-8476-8633-7 (2000) (0)
- The Selected Writings of Henry Chadwick (2018) (0)
- Book Reviews: Moral Theology (2005) (0)
- Book Review : Letters from Lake Como: explorations in technology and the human race, by Romano Guardini, translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley with an introduction by Louis Dupré. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1994.136pp. pb. £7.95 (1995) (0)
- Appearance without Reduction (2018) (0)
- War by Other Means (1998) (0)
- Book Review: Gilbert Meilaender and William Werpehowski (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). ix + 546 pp. £75 (hb), ISBN 0—19—936211—X (2007) (0)
- Book Review: Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays, Volume 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). xii + 239 pp. £40/ US$70 (hb), ISBN 978—0—521—85438—2; £14.99/US$24.99 (pb), ISBN 978—0—521—67062—3 (2008) (0)
- Article Review: Public Theology and the Missiological Task (2006) (0)
- Moral Disagreement in Anglican – Roman Catholic Relations (2021) (0)
- The Professional Politician and the Activist (2020) (0)
- Book Review : Theology and Social Theory: beyond secular reason, by John Milbank. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990. 443 pp. £45 (1992) (0)
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