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The Gift of the Other

The Gift of the Other

Shepherd, Andrew
Bouma-Prediger, Steven

Paperback

Series: Princeton Theological Monograph, Book 207

Christian LivingGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 162032766X
ISBN13: 9781620327661
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: Apr 28 2014
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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