TY - BOOK AU - López,Antonio TI - Spirit's gift: the metaphysical insight of Claude Bruaire SN - 9780813216171 AV - BJ1533.G4 L67 2006eb U1 - 194 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Catholic University of America Press KW - Bruaire, Claude, KW - Generosity KW - Gifts KW - Philosophical theology KW - Christianity KW - Philosophy KW - Metaphysics KW - Giftware KW - First philosophy KW - Générosité KW - Cadeaux KW - Théologie philosophique KW - Christianisme KW - Philosophie KW - Métaphysique KW - metaphysics KW - aat KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - History & Surveys KW - Modern KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Metafysica KW - gtt KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index; 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=360289 ER -