Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 374 g
Reihe: James Clarke and Co Ltd
Levinas, Derrida, and a Theology of Hospitality
Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 374 g
Reihe: James Clarke and Co Ltd
ISBN: 978-0-227-17484-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
A timely treatise on how Christian hospitality can be practiced in an alienated world, developing a theology of self and community open to the 'Other'.
We live in an age of global capitalism and terror. In a climate of consumption and fear the unknown Other is regarded as a threat to our safety, a client to assist, or a competitor to be overcome in the struggle for scarce resources. And yet, the Christian Scriptures explicitly summon us to welcome strangers, to care for the widow and the orphan, and to build relationships with those distant from us. But how, in this world of hostility and commodification, do we practice hospitality? In The Gift of the Other, Andrew Shepherd engages deeply with the influential thought of French thinkers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, and argues that a true vision of hospitality is ultimately found not in postmodern philosophies but in the Christian narrative. The book offers a compelling Trinitarian account of the God of hospitality - a God of communion who 'makes room' for otherness, who overcomes the hostility of the world though Jesus' life, death, and resurrection, and who through the work of the Spirit is forming a new community: the Church - a people of welcome.
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Foreword
Preface
Introduction: A World for All?
1 The Transcendence of the Other and Infinite Responsibility: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
2 Unconditional Hospitality, the Gift of Deconstruction?
The Philosophy of Jacques Derrida
3 Levinasian and Derridean Hospitality: Ethics beyond Ontology?
4 Gifted, Called, and Named: Trinitarian Personhood and an Ontology of Communion
- A tête à tête - Wrestling with the Other
5 "LOGOS", "Sacrificial Substitute", and "Eikon": Christology and the Overcoming of Hostility
- A tête à tête - Seen by the Other
6 Dwelling in Christ and the In-Dwelling Other: Forming the Ecclesial and Eschatological Self
- A tête à tête - A Drink with the Other
7 Performing a Different Script: Participation in the Practice of Ecclesial Hospitality
- A tête à tête - Hosted by the Other
Conclusion: Grounded Hospitality: Community, Ecological
Care, and Inter-Faith Relationships
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