Reign of God

Jonathan Cole is Assistant Director at the Centre for Religion, Ethics and Society, Charles Sturt University, Australia.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Oliver O’Donovan’s English-language Reception and Theopolitical InfluencesChapter 2: Government-as-Judgment: An Exposition of O’Donovan’s Theology of Political Authority Chapter 3: Does Israel Reveal the Essence of Political Authority?Chapter 4: Romans 13: 1–7 and the Christological “Re-authorisation” of Political AuthorityChapter 5: Salvation-History, Biblical Theology and Political AuthorityChapter 6: The “Providence Thesis” and Its Theodicy ImplicationsChapter 7: O’Donovan’s (Conservative) Christian LiberalismChapter 8: Providence and the Created Order: The Ontological Tension in the Accounts of Political Authority in Resurrection and DesireChapter 9: The Redemption of Political Authority and Its New Historical Bene Esse as the Work of Divine ProvidenceConclusionBibliographyIndex

At last, a full-length monograph on Oliver O'Donovan's remarkable theology of political authority. Jonathan Cole does us a great service in this comprehensive, clearly-written and constructively critical account of O'Donovan's political thought. Both seasoned readers of O'Donovan and newcomers to his corpus will find this an invaluable companion.