Oliver O’Donovan, Resurrection and Moral Order, “Created Order” 1. The Gospel and Christian Ethics 1. According to Oliver O’Donovan, what must serve as the foundation of Christian ethics? 2. According to O’Donovan, what follows from separating faith from morality? 3. According to O’Donovan, Christian ethics depends upon the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.  Why?  4. According to O’Donovan, “Since creation, and human nature with it, are reaffirmed in the resurrection, we must firmly reject the idea that Christian ethics is esoteric, opted into by those who so choose, irrelevant to those who do not choose.”  Why has this misconception gained favor, and why does O’Donovan believe it is mistaken? 5. Why does O’Donovan reject the Stoic ethics based on “life in accord with nature”?  What difficulties does he see with the Stoic position? 2. Created Order   6. According to O’Donovan, in proclaiming the resurrection of Christ, the apostles also proclaimed what else? 7. According to O’Donovan, “to speak of the world as ‘created’ is already to speak of an order.”  Explain what he means. 8. According to O’Donovan, what is the most fundamental teleological relation in the cosmos? 9. According to O’Donovan, created things are ordered both to God and to one another within in ordered whole (which we do not always discern).  He also claims that things “are ordered by kinds and ends.”  How is his claim similar to the thesis in Robert Sokolowski’s article  “What is Natural Law? Human Purposes and Natural Ends”? 10. Why, according to O’Donovan, can we not speak of the flourishing of any kind without implicitly indicating a wider order which will determine what flourishing and frustration within that kind consists of?  Why, when we raise this question, do we also raise the possibility of a “supernatural” end? 11. Why, according to O’Donovan, if we are to give any content to the term “humanity”, we must do so in a context where we can understand it as a kind and relate it to the wider order in terms of its end and the ends of other beings.  How does this claim relate to Langdon Gilkey’s conclusions at the end of The Shantung Compound about humanity’s need for a transcendent end whose characteristics owe much to Christian revelation? 12. How and why, according to O’Donovan, does “abstraction from teleology” (that is to say, the kind of teleology he has been arguing for) create a “dangerous misunderstanding of the place of man in the universe”?