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b. 1945

Oliver Michael Timothy O'Donovan FRSE FBA (born 28 June 1945) is a British Anglican priest and academic, known for his work in the field of Christian ethics.

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One could almost say that there is only one political question worth asking about liberal democracy: how firmly are the two elements, political freedom and and electoral legitimation, bound together? Is their conjunction a matter of necessity? Or is it merely the product of a peculiar socio-ecological niche, perhaps too fragile or too specialized to transplant?

The Ways of Judgment (2005)

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