Abstract
In recent times, the question of the gift has become a hot topic across a range of disciplines. Jacques Derrida was a key instigator: he disclosed the gift’s paradoxical or aporetic nature: it is both gratuitous and circular, excessive and reciprocal. An exemplary and decisive textual site of this duality is the Bible, where gift/ing is expressed according to extreme figures like grace and bribery – and much in between. But an examination of the gift should also move beyond the world of the text to the world itself. And so, we ask: ‘What if creation is a gift? How should we respond to the Earth?’Date
2011-02-16Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/articleIdentifier
oai:ojs.novadev5.newcastle.edu.au:article/62http://novaojs.newcastle.edu.au/ojsbct/index.php/bct/article/view/62