Deliberation, History and Reading: A Response to Schweiker and Wolterstorff

¹ James Bosweli, Life of Johnson, 1.5.1783.

² Desire of the Nations, p. 273.

³ Augustine, Confessions 4.4.9: Factus eram ipse mihi magna quaestio.

⁴ Desire, p. 148.

⁵ Psalm 37:11, for example, effects the pregnant conjunction of these two notions.

⁶ Aristotle's terms in Nicomachean Ethics 5 (1132 b 24) are ‘distributive’ and ‘corrective’. I follow Hugo Grotius in preferring ‘attributive’ as the clearer and more comprehensive term.

⁷ That consideration seems to lie behind, but surely does not justify, Wolterstorff's puzzling interpretative aside: ‘God's concern is solely the health of the church; most of the time that appears to be O'Donovan's view,’

⁸ Iliad 6.392–496.

⁹ Beowulf 1–11 translated by Heany, Seamus (London: Faber & Faber, 1999).

¹⁰ p. 194.

¹¹ Palestine: the prize and price of Zion (London and Washington: Cassell, 1997).