Entering into Rest

<DIV>Oliver O'Donovan's Ethics as Theology project began with <I>Self World and Time</I> an "induction" into Christian ethics as ordered reflection on moral thinking within the life of faith. Volume 2 <I>Finding and Seeking</I> shifted the focus to the movement of moral thought from a first consciousness of agency to the time that determines the moment of decision.<BR /><BR /> In this third and final volume of his magnum opus O'Donovan turns his attention to the forward horizon with which moral thinking must engage. Moral experience he argues is necessarily two-directional looking both back at responsibility and forward at aims. The Pauline triad of theological virtues (faith love and hope) describes a form of responsibility and its climax in the sovereignty of love opens the way to a definitive teleology.<BR /><BR /><I>Entering into Rest</I> offers O'Donovan's mature reflections on questions that have engaged him throughout his career and provides a synoptic view of many of his main themes.</DIV>