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Deliberation, History and Reading: A Response to Schweiker and Wolterstorff

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Oliver O'Donovan
Oliver O'Donovan
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Christ Church Oxford OX1 1DP
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 127 - 144
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 2001

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References

1 James Bosweli, Life of Johnson, 1.5.1783.

2 Desire of the Nations, p. 273.

3 Augustine, Confessions 4.4.9: Factus eram ipse mihi magna quaestio.

4 Desire, p. 148.

5 Psalm 37:11, for example, effects the pregnant conjunction of these two notions.

6 Aristotle's terms in Nicomachean Ethics 5 (1132 b 24) are ‘distributive’ and ‘corrective’. I follow Hugo Grotius in preferring ‘attributive’ as the clearer and more comprehensive term.

7 That consideration seems to lie behind, but surely does not justify, Wolterstorff's puzzling interpretative aside: ‘God's concern is solely the health of the church; most of the time that appears to be O'Donovan's view,’

8 Iliad 6.392–496.

9 Beowulf 1–11 translated by Heany, Seamus (London: Faber & Faber, 1999).Google Scholar

10 p. 194.

11 Palestine: the prize and price of Zion (London and Washington: Cassell, 1997).Google Scholar