Whither Oliver O’Donovan?
I’m just wrapping up a doctoral seminar at Calvin Theological Seminary on Oliver O’Donovan’s moral and political theology. We focused on close readings of Resurrection and Moral Order, 2nd ed. (1994) and Desire of the Nations (Cambridge, 1999), along with some critical readings by Jonathan Chaplin and Nicholas Wolterstorff.
We didn’t have time to give proper attention to The Ways of Judgment (2005) or his most recent volume, Self, World, and Time (2013), so I promised students I would spend a day trying to summarize the trajectory of O’Donovan’s work post-DN. I thought the resulting notes (notes!, please note) might be of some service to others so I share them here.
