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The Generosity of Creation (Paperback)
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The Generosity of Creation (Paperback)
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Referring to creation as generous is not common. We normally
associate notions of generosity and gift in the created order with
human being and action, imputing such notions to other creatures
and the whole of creation often only in a ""poetic"" sense. Once we
center the reality of all things in God as a loving Creator,
however, we become disposed to see everything, in its very
givenness, as gift?a reality that participates from its depths, in
analogical ways, in God's generosity, such as to make possible a
deepened look also at the problem of evil. The Generosity of
Creation has a twofold purpose in this light. The four chapters of
Part I spell out what this God-centeredness implies for our
understanding of the cosmos in various contexts: first, the
""paradigmatic"" meaning of the child and childlikeness for a
civilization rightly ordered in terms of gift; second, ecology
considered in terms of a ""liberation theology"" guided by
""integral human development""; third, the unity between ""ideas""
and ""reality"" as a necessary condition for ""preserving nature as
the pre-sacrament, and the Church as the sacrament, of the Word of
God's Love""; fourth, human freedom conceived primarily as a
response to the good and a desire for God, in contrast to the
would-be neutral or indifferent freedom characteristic of liberal
societies. Part II explores the metaphysical foundations for
speaking of creatures as ""generous"": gifts from God that
participate, each according to its own nature, in God's giving. The
exploration unfolds in dialogue with theologian Michael Waldstein,
in relation to the anthropology of John Paul II and the metaphysics
of Thomas Aquinas.
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