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Spirit's gift : the metaphysical insight of Claude Bruaire / Antonio Lopez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- López, Antonio, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bruaire, Claude, 1932-1986.
- Bruaire, Claude.
- Generosity.
- Gifts.
- Philosophical theology.
- Christianity--Philosophy.
- Christianity.
- Metaphysics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Spirit's Gift is the first book in English devoted to the philosophy of Claude Bruaire (1932-1986). Its focus is the notion of gift, a notion that has recently been the subject of lively debate involving Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion, Marcel Mauss, and others.
- Contents:
- Part I: Self-determining freedom
- The encounter between philosophy and theology
- From theology to philosophy
- The whole of reason
- Christian intimations of philosophy
- Anthropology beckons
- A theological reading of Hegel
- Hegel's logic revisited
- Anthropology's seeming negativity
- Absolute's freedom
- Self-disclosing gift
- Absolute freedom and spirit
- The logic of mercy
- Part II: The ontology of gift
- Retrieving the spirit
- Otherness and surprise as the beginning of metaphysics
- Positivistic reduction and promethean presumption
- The concept of the spirit and its manifestation
- Phenomenology of spirit
- An ontology of gift : finite spirit
- Giving before having
- Gratuitous reciprocity
- A perilous existence
- Altogether gift : absolute spirit
- The absolute principle
- Absolute gift : the infinite, the creator, and the eternal
- God's unfathomable love : the confirmation of the gift
- Love's ruse : the ultimate positivity of gift
- Three persons and the one personal God
- The kingdom of the Father
- Trinity and person
- Confirmation of finite spirit.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-251) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1617-6
- OCLC:
- 922996403
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