TY - BOOK AU - López,Antonio AU - López,Antonio TI - Spirit's Gift: The Metaphysical Insight of Claude Bruaire SN - 9780813216171 AV - BJ1533 U1 - 194 PY - 2006/// CY - Washington, D. C. PB - Catholic University of America Press KW - Bruaire, Claude, -- 1932-1986 KW - Generosity KW - Gifts KW - Philosophical theology KW - Christianity -- Philosophy KW - Metaphysics KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Kenneth L. Schmitz -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Self-Determining Freedom -- 1. The Encounter between Philosophy and Theology -- From Theology to Philosophy -- The Whole of Reason -- Christian Intimations of Philosophy -- 2. Anthropology Beckons -- A Theological Reading of Hegel -- Hegel's Logic Revisited -- Anthropology's Seeming Negativity -- 3. Absolute's Freedom -- Self-Disclosing Gift -- Absolute Freedom and Spirit -- The Logic of Mercy -- Part II: The Ontology of Gift -- 4. 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 -- 5. An Ontology of Gift: Finite Spirit -- Giving before Having -- Gratuitous Reciprocity -- A Perilous Existence -- 6. Altogether Gift: Absolute Spirit -- The Absolute Principle -- Absolute Gift: The Infinite, the Creator, and the Eternal -- 7. 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 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3134771 ER -