Liberalism fails to bring a critical practical reason to bear on the present world. In its pursuit of doctrinal reconstruction it treats the moral questions of the age as moral certainties, it views the indeterminate shapes of the present as sharp outlines. It may even imagine that in the present it can find some kind of speculative counterweight to correct a bias in past and transcendent reality. Instead of looking to the world as a frame within which to serve God and neighbour, it looks to it for a demonstration that in the past reality was misunderstood. Read the rest at Fulcrum. You can download the PDF copy here. Professor Oliver O’Donovan FBA, is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church. From 1 August 2006, he will take up the post of Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University of Edinburgh.
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