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

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.

• 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

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

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.

• 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