The Calvinist International
In The Desire of the Nations, Oliver O’Donovan argues that, after the resurrection and ascension, all the rulers of the earth are under the judgment of the gospel: either they will submit themselves to Christ’s kingship or they will wage war against it. There is no via media. What he argues is basically an expansion upon and […]
In a characteristically eloquent passage near the end of The Desire of the Nations, Oliver O’Donovan gives credit to “modernity-criticism” where he believes it is due: such critics are willing to treat their own moment and culture as non-necessary and contingent for all its appearance of absolute givenness and naturalness, and this allows them to see […]
Sort of; that’s a bit of a stretch, actually. This post is really on Craig Bartholomew on Oliver O’Donovan and the way his gloss of O’Donovan relates to Niels Hemmingsen. In his introduction to A Royal Priesthood?, Bartholomew has this to say of O’Donovan: Realism means that this [creation] order is truly present in the creation. […]
Oliver O’Donovan wonders in the second chapter of The Desire of the Nations about the directionality of the analogy or metaphor of the statement “Yhwh is king”: does kingship here really tell us something about God, or is it merely a metaphor, reflecting human speculation about God but not unveiling anything of political importance about His […]
In Resurrection and Moral Order Oliver O’Donovan lists four types of “natural” authorities that are encountered in the world, along with a fifth that is due to Adam’s sin. These, he thinks, can provoke a response of obedience without critical reflection: The forms in which we may encounter and respond to authority are very man; but […]
One of the things that we talk about a lot here at TCI is building a culture of persuasion, and one of our favorite bogeymen is the retreat to commitment. These things are of course connected: against the retreat to commitment, we insist that it is in the nature of truth claims to be public truth claims; but neither […]
Some time this year Dr. N. T. Wright’s long-awaited fourth big book will be out. No doubt its eventual release will provide fodder for scores of blog posts and comments, along with, of course, published reviews, and responses in other books. At present, though, there are no particular Dr. Wright controversies in the blogosphere, so […]