Oliver O'Donovan

A Political Theology of Climate Change

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Michael Northcott has devoted the best part of his career to understanding the problems of the environment and climate from a theologian's viewpoint, but this is no repetition of what he has said before. A Political Theology of Climate Change is the book he has been working towards, and he here achieves a powerful synthetic integration of scientific findings and policy questions with a theology of creation and eschaton and with philosophical and political critiques of modernity. This is a book to persuade us that the climate is not just a problem to be solved, but a question to be reflected on deeply, searching deep into the relation between mankind and its creator.”

Amor Dei

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Joining Creation's Praise

Theology

“Brian Brock argues that Christian ethics must be a thoroughly ‘doxological’ undertaking, formed from start to finish in the language of worship and imaginatively nourished from sacred texts. As a program this has been heard before, but I cannot think of another book that undertakes to implement that program with such thoroughness. Taking creatureliness as a privileged starting point, strongly in tension with the suppositions of the secular West, Brock explores the paths of practical thought that open out from it, while warning us away from the false trails he sees as barred off.”

Love and the Dignity of Human Life

Philosophy

“These three essays by Robert Spaemann will make an excellent first encounter (it is unlikely to be the last) for readers who do not yet know the probing and delicate thought of this distinguished German Catholic moral philosopher, equally at home in the traditional themes of Western Christian philosophy and in the technicalities of contemporary problems posed by technology. Two chapters that distill lines of thought from Spaemann's major works, Happiness and Benevolence and Persons, lead to a memorably stinging critique of brain-death criteria in transplant surgery. This is Christian thoughtfulness at its most engaging.”

Power and Purpose

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Paul Ramsey's presence is still felt wherever questions of war and peace are on the agenda. But as Adam Hollowell can convince us, Ramsey's just-war theory is only the surface of a body of theological-political reflection with depth, complexity, and far-reaching implications. This book is a major help in reappropriating a legacy with far more to say to public theologians than they have yet realized.”

The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty

Theology

“It is an exciting development that Richard Hooker is being relieved of his image as a fusty ecclesiastical polemicist and rediscovered as a formative influence on the modern political imagination. He finds a committed and discriminating advocate in W. Bradford Littlejohn, who reveals how the generous Christian faith that moved Hooker equipped him with a supple and disciplined account of human freedom.”

Toward an Anabaptist Political Theology

Theology

“These working-papers composed in preparation for a wide-ranging political theology will certainly make us feel how much we have lost by James Reimer's death. Yet the result is not simply a might-have-been. They show us enough of his historical and conceptual inquiries to encourage us to reopen questions we may have thought closed, and to find more plausible the prospect of a convergence of Radical and Magisterial Protestant traditions, true to the commitments of both sides.”