The Authority of the Gospel: Explorations in Moral and Political Theology in Honor of Oliver O'Donovan - Paperback

by Robert Song (Editor), Brent Waters (Editor), Rowan Williams (Foreword by)

Oliver O'Donovan is widely regarded as one of the preeminent Protestant Christian ethicists of our time. His teaching and scholarship have exerted a profound influence on countless moral theologians.

This volume honoring O'Donovan shows how the various contributors -- themselves distinguished scholars -- have developed their own thinking through serious engagement with O'Donovan's work. Significantly, they build upon, expand, and critique the agenda for Christian ethics that O'Donovan has been instrumental in constructing. As Robert Song and Brent Waters say in their introduction, "To genuinely honor O'Donovan, one cannot remain content with reciting but must risk one's own exposition."

• Contributors:
• Nigel Biggar
• Brian Brock
• Jonathan Chaplin
• Eric Gregory
• Shinji Kayama
• Jean-Yves Lacoste
• Joan O'Donovan
• Oliver O'Donovan
• Robert Song
• Hans Ulrich
• Bernd Wannenwetsch
• Brent Waters
• John Webster
• Rowan Williams
• John Witte Jr.
• Holger Zaborowski

Author Biography

Robert Song is professor of theological ethics at Durham University and the author of Human Genetics: Fabricating the Future and Covenant and Calling: Towards a Theology of Same-Sex Relationships.

Brent Waters is Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois, and the author of The Family in Christian Social and Political Thought, This Mortal Flesh: Incarnation and Bioethics, and From Human to Posthuman: Christian Theology and Technology in a Postmodern World.