The Gift Of The Other eBook

Levinas Derrida and a Theology of Hospitality. Andrew Shepherd presents a timely and powerful argument for why we Christians ought to resist the multiple forms of violence that tempt us and why we ought to offer hospitality to the homeless in this age of multiple displacements. In the first half of the book Shepherd explains and critiques the views of postmodern thinkers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. In the second half, he cogently argues that the Christian doctrines of the Trinity, creation, sin, and redemptionproperly understoodprovide robust resources for a theology and practice of genuine homemaking and homecoming.