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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450370303321

Autore

Milbank John

Titolo

Being reconciled : ontology and pardon / / John Milbank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-40590-1

1-134-40589-8

1-280-05810-2

9786610058105

0-203-32868-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Radical orthodoxy series

Classificazione

11.61

Disciplina

234/.5

Soggetti

Reconciliation - Religious aspects - Christianity

Gifts - Religious aspects - Christianity

Philosophical theology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Evil: darkness and silence; Violence: double passivity; Forgiveness: the double waters; Incarnation: the sovereign victim; Crucifixion: obscure deliverance; Atonement: Christ the exception; Ecclesiology: the last of the last; Grace: the midwinter sacrifice; Politics: socialism by grace; Culture: the gospel of affinity; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Being Reconciled is a radical and entirely fresh theological treatment of the classic theory of the Gift in the context of divine reconciliation. It reconsiders notions of freedom and exchange in relation to a Christian doctrine which understands Creation, grace and incarnation as heavenly gifts, but the Fall, evil and violence as refusal of those gifts.  In a sustained and rigorous response to the works of Derrida, Levinas, Marion, Zizek, Hauerwas and the 'Radical Evil' school, John Milbank posits the daring view that only transmission of the forgiveness offered by the Divine Humanit