![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But can the human word effect what it signifies? Are we given to renew the life of human communities by a word of truth, or is this an unattainable ideal, from which we have to fall back upon the ‘messiness’ and ‘compromise’ of politics?” -Oliver O’Donovan, The Ways of Judgment, p. How are we so to pronounce as to establish? How are we to make the truth appear effectively? Of God it is said that “He spoke and it was done.” ‘God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.’ The word of God carries the power of God within itself to echo the old phrase from sacramental theology, it effects what it signifies. ![]() “It is, perhaps, the most fundamental of all political questions whether and to what extent judgment is possible.
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