Part I: Self-determining freedom
The encounter between philosophy and theology
From theology to philosophy
The whole of reason
Christian intimations of philosophy
Anthropology beckons
A theological reading of Hegel
Hegel's logic revisited
Anthropology's seeming negativity
Absolute's freedom
Self-disclosing gift
Absolute freedom and spirit
The logic of mercy
Part II: The ontology of gift
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
An ontology of gift : finite spirit
Giving before having
Gratuitous reciprocity
A perilous existence
Altogether gift : absolute spirit
The absolute principle
Absolute gift : the infinite, the creator, and the eternal
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.