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Book Review: If Creation is a Gift

Mark Manolopoulos's book (a volume in the SUNY Theology and Continental Thought series) looks to bring together recent Continental philosophical thought on the gift with a strongly ecological perspective via the theological category of creation. Though the project is not new, the book stands as fine introduction to the field, while also offering a useful contribution in the metaphor of thought that "oscillates" among ecologically-responsible modes of dwelling on the earth which nonetheless persist in tension. The book's introduction sets the scene for the exploration to come: