Oliver O’Donovan

The Rev. Canon Oliver O’Donovan is former Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University of Edinburgh.

The Failure of the Liberal Paradigm

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‘The Failure of the Liberal Paradigm’, the first in a series of seven ‘Sermons on the Subject of the Day’ by The Revd Canon Professor Oliver O’Donovan FBA, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church. “Your treaty with death will be annulled, and your pact with … Continue Reading

‘Requisitioned by the Word’ – a sermon preached at St Mary Islington 25 September 2005

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A sermon preached at St Mary Islington, 25 September 2005 We tore ourselves away from them and, putting to sea, made a straight run (Acts 21:1) A nice dramatic translation there, from The Revised English Bible, capturing the intensity of Paul’s farewell to the elders of the church at Ephesus: “We tore ourselves away.” And … Continue Reading

Pope John-Paul II

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Open a page at random in any one of that stream of Encyclical Letters that poured out from the Vatican during John-Paul’s papacy, and what do you see? Chances are you will light first on a discussion of Scripture – not quoted as a proof but teased out as a way of framing a question … Continue Reading

The only poker game in town: reflections on the Windsor Report

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1. The Lambeth Commission was asked to make a theological and legal discernment of a particular situation, describing that situation in an analytical way that would prepare for a practical decision by the Primates and A.C.C. Their work, we may say, is a service rendered to the episcopê of the Anglican churches, aimed towards an … Continue Reading