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

Introduction
Chapter 1:
Oliver O'Donovan's English-language Reception and Theopolitical Influences

Chapter 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 Authority

Chapter 5:
Salvation-History, Biblical Theology and Political Authority

Chapter 6:
The "Providence Thesis" and Its Theodicy Implications

Chapter 7:
O'Donovan's (Conservative) Christian Liberalism

Chapter 8:
Providence and the Created Order: The Ontological Tension in the Accounts of Political Authority in Resurrection and Desire

Chapter 9:
The Redemption of Political Authority and Its New Historical Bene Esse as the Work of Divine Providence
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index