Resurrection and Moral Order (Oliver O'Donovan)

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Read it once. Read a bit of it a second time. It is deep, deep, deep, deep. Odonovan is very wise but not always very clear. His section on "knowledge" is fantastic. He is not as clear on ethics as is a Frame or Bahnsen. But he forces you to think deeply on ethical principles. In short, he sets forth the thesis that Christ's resurrection redeems the created order, creating a moral field in which the Christian man can walk in the freedom of the Spirit. He spends the rest of the book unpacking that statement.

Again, it is a very hard read but very worth it.
 
Some good O'Donovan quotes

"But through the cross of life God has taken his place alongside the dead, our victims. He has exposed our melancholy collusion with death by revealing the resurrection of the dead, and by calling to existence a communion of the dead with the living."
~Oliver O'Donovan, from The Ways of Judgment


"Infinite judgment has been given infinite sacrifice, but with redemptive, not destructive purpose. Abel's cry for cosmic vengeance has been met, but not on its own terms" (27). The Ways of Judgment

"On all sides pundits proclaim that the nation-state is in trouble. The truth is, it has been in trouble ever since Christ rose from the dead" (The Desire of the Nations, p. 241).
 
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