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Oliver O'Donovan

Towards an Interpretation of Biblical Ethics

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  • Oliver O'Donovan

The author addresses questions about the interpretation of the Bible's ethical material. These are questions about the meanings of moral words, to be distinguished from questions of normative ethics and of descriptive ethics. By defining "ethics" formally, rather than by its content, O'Donovan has included within the scope of ethics two spheres that are sometimes distinguished from it, i.e., the religious and the aesthetic.

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The Political Thought of the Book of Revelation

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  • Oliver O'Donovan

This article is an account of the political thought of the book of Revelation. It reflects on how the goodness of creation is questioned by the apparent meaninglessness of the historical events. Only if history can be shown to have a purpose can the praise of creation resume. The sacrificial death of the Messiah of God is the event that interprets all other events.

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Scripture and Christian Ethics

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  • Oliver O'Donovan

While he focuses on Psalm 119, Oliver O’Donovan here explores the task of Christian ethics and Scripture as God’s word to illumine our path.

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Many things I have tried to grasp, and have lost. That which I have placed in God’s hands I still have. Martin Luther
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