Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Oliver O'Donovan: On Respect for Neighbor

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Many times in the history of thought respect for fellow-men, divorced from the theological context of love for the highest good, has collapsed into one or two corruptions: (1) the attempt to tyrannize over the fellow-man by taking responsibility for his welfare out of his hands, and (2) the enslavement of the self to the fellow-man who becomes an object of desire and need.


--Oliver O'Donovan in Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics



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