In his third 2007 New College Lecture Prof O’Donovan considered resolving to do what is right.

When we ask about the world’s repertoire of good things, good relations, good events, good promises, we can go into much specialised detail without ceasing to speak in general terms. Each area of our experience of the world has its own tract of moral discussion: bioethics, discussing whether the human embryo is a person; political ethics, discussing

In his second 2007 New College Lecture Prof. Oliver O’Donovan focussed on admiring what is good.

In describing the core of the moral point of view in a biblical metaphor as “wakefulness”, we have observed that our moral thinking makes a journey from observation to obligation, from the goodness of the world to the rightness of some action that is available to us to do. The good, which is the reason presupposed in any purposeful action, is

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In his first New College Lecture Professor Oliver O’Donovan used the metaphor of “wakefulness” - the mind alert to shape decisions and actions, to consider what it means for humans to make right choices based on what is “good” and “right”.

You have invited me to make the long journey from Europe to Australia. In return I am inviting you to