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Author Shepherd, Andrew, author

Title The gift of the other : Levinas, Derrida, and a theology of hospitality / Andrew Shepherd ; with a foreword by Steven Bouma-Prediger
Published Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 264 pages)
Series Princeton theological monograph series ; 207
Princeton theological monograph series ; 207.
Contents Introduction: A world for all? -- The transcendence of the other and infinite responsibility: the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas -- Unconditional hospitality, the gift of deconstruction? : the philosophy of Jacques Derrida -- Levinasian and Derridean hospitality: ethics beyond ontology? -- Gifted, called, and named: Trinitarian personhood and an ontology of communion -- A tête à tête: wrestling with the other -- "LOGOS," "sacrificial substitute," and "eikon": christology and the overcoming of hostility -- A tête à tête: seen by the other -- Dwelling in Christ and the in-dwelling other: forming the ecclesial and eschatological self -- A tête à tête: a drink with the other -- 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
Notes Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Otago, 2010
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264)
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Subject Lévinas, Emmanuel.
Derrida, Jacques.
SUBJECT Derrida, Jacques fast
Lévinas, Emmanuel fast
Subject Hospitality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ethics.
Hospitality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Form Electronic book
Author Bouma-Prediger, Steven
ISBN 9781630873417
1630873411