Finding and seeking

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This volume traces the logic of moral thought from self-awareness to decision through the virtues of faith, hope, and love, blending biblical, historico-theological, and contemporary ideas.

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Full title :Finding and seeking / Oliver O'Donovan.

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This volume traces the logic of moral thought from self-awareness to decision through the virtues of faith, hope, and love, blending biblical, historico-theological, and contemporary ideas.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014

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Publisher(s):William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Place of Publication:Grand Rapids, Michigan
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Description:1 online resource (x, 249 pages)

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ISBN:9781467442237, 1467442232
oclc:ocn920475207
LC Classification:BJ1251
Dewey Decimal:241

Spirit and self. Ethics in the spirit -- The Giver of life -- Naming God -- The flesh -- Sin against the self -- Faith and purpose. The root of action -- Command and obedience -- Self-offering -- Self-consistency -- Doubt of purpose -- Faith and meaning. Know thyself! -- The objectified self -- I and we -- Mankind -- Doubt of meaning -- Good of man. Self-communicating good -- Love of the world -- The order of love -- Sin against the world -- Virtue -- Prejudice -- Wisdom and time. The call of wisdom -- Seeking -- Ideology -- World and time -- Love and testimony -- The analogy of love -- The testimony -- Receiving the testimony -- Confession -- The moral confession -- Hope and anticipation. The future of today -- Three prospects -- Critique of anticipation -- Hope and anticipation -- Endurance and temptation -- Sin against time -- Deliberation. Purpose and deliberation -- Against deliberation -- Prudence -- The ordering of law -- Consequentialism -- The particular -- Circumstances and consequences -- Ideals and compromises -- Discernment. Indeterminacy -- The path -- Vocation -- Historicism.