“Love’s Search for Truth” ft. the University of Edinburgh’s Oliver O’Donovan I S3 Ep.15

Описание: In the fifteenth episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Oliver O’Donovan, Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh. O’Donovan opens by discussing his involvement with the recently formed Global Faculty Initiative—an effort seeking to “integrate faith and scholarship for academics already heavily burdened with the demands of work and the whole of life.” While O’Donovan participates in a number of the group’s efforts, he took the lead on contributing the theology brief, “Sovereignty of Love,” to the project related to the applicability of a proper theological understanding of love across a wide array of disciplines. O’Donovan then shifts to discussing his own formation as a theologian and the impact of a myriad of teachers as different in temperament as Oxford’s Henry Chadwick and Princeton’s Paul Ramsey. O’Donovan began his career at the University of Oxford’s Wycliffe Hall, crossed the Atlantic to serve at the University of Toronto’s Wycliffe College, and then re-crossed the Atlantic when appointed Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and Canon of Christ Church at Oxford. After a long return tenure at Oxford, O’Donovan explains why he believed he needed a change that led him to serve on the faculty at the University of Edinburgh for the final formal years of his career. O’Donovan then offers insights concerning the theological logic that arcs across his numerous books including his three-volume Ethics as Theology project as well as his recently published Gifford Lectures. He then concludes by discussing how the spirit of distrust that has driven a wedge between theologians and the clergy needs to be rectified and that doing so would be of great benefit to both the university and the Church.