If creation is a gift /:

What if our world were considered a gift? Extending postmodern gift theory to ecological and ecotheological concerns, Mark Manolopoulos explores how "creation"--the what-is--can be seen as a gift. Creation, when viewed in a radically egalitarian way, is the matrix of all material things--h...

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1. Verfasser: Manolopoulos, Mark, 1968-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009.
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series in theology and continental thought.
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Zusammenfassung:What if our world were considered a gift? Extending postmodern gift theory to ecological and ecotheological concerns, Mark Manolopoulos explores how "creation"--the what-is--can be seen as a gift. Creation, when viewed in a radically egalitarian way, is the matrix of all material things--human, otherwise-than-human, or humanly manufactured. Utilizing and critiquing the work of Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion, Manolopoulos argues that the gift is an irresolvable paradox marked by the contradictory elements of excess (gratuity, linearity) and exchange (gratitude, return). Philosophical and theological reflections on the gift become entangled in its paradoxical tension, but ultimately both aspects must be respected and reflected. When it comes to the creation-gift, we should vacillate between responses like letting-be, enjoyment, utility, and return. Elegantly written and thought-provoking, If Creation Is a Gift both contributes to the ongoing debate on the gift and provides a fresh philosophical and theological consideration of the environmental crisis.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 187 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index.
ISBN:9781441607775
1441607773
0791494020
9780791494028

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