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• W2921588897 abstract "Love as the Law of the Gift:Reading Paul with John Barclay and Aquinas Michael Dauphinais Christmas is an irrational season. This charming and poetic phrase has always struck me as profoundly wrong. Far from being irrational, Christmas is reason at its greatest height and depth: the manifestation of the Word, the divine reason, becoming flesh. Yet there is something understandable in the quote, since the gift of the incarnate Word in Bethlehem surely exceeds anything that human reason could have expected or deserved—and the incarnate Word is certainly opposed by fallen human reason. The actual quote is an excerpt from a poem by Madeleine L'Engle: This is the irrational seasonwhen love blooms bright and wild.Had Mary been filled with reasonthere'd have been no room for the child.1 [End Page 149] My interest here is not in L'Engle's theological views, but rather in considering the expression the irrational season as emblematic of a peculiarly modern way of thinking about God and his actions toward humanity. The typically modern way of considering gifts is to see them as opposed to reason. Love blooms bright and wild in the irrational season, whereas a rational season in Mary would have shut the doors on the gift of love.2 According to this typically modern view, the gift of the Christ child is neither self-interested nor calculated. Christ, according to this view, has entered the world to free us from the rational cycle of economic exchange and selfishness to enter a new world of gift, one in which human beings give freely to each other without any thought of return. Yet we need to pause at this supposed dichotomy between reason and gift, between order and love. Such a dichotomy would undermine some of the most significant bonds within a society, particularly those of obligatory familial roles. For instance, a mother and father are obligated to love and provide for their children, an obligation discernable by reason; yet such loving support is also a gift given by loving parents, with those who give more in relationships often receiving more from such relationships. Moreover, gifts can be understood as gifts only to the extent that they possess an intelligibility open to human reason. Gifts have to participate somehow in the order of goodness and have to be recognized as such. A gift that purely does harm is no gift at all. The problem with opposing gift and order is that gifts both presuppose an order and establish new orders. In his magisterial Paul and the Gift, John M. G. Barclay challenges many modern assumptions about the nature of the gift, assumptions that Barclay argues have clouded the interpretation of Paul and his teaching on redemption offered in Jesus Christ. Barclay draws on the anthropological investigations of the gift over the past several decades to remove some of our modern views of grace in order to allow us to see more clearly how Paul might have understood the climatic event of human history, the gift of Christ. The present article proceeds in two major parts. First, it will consider some themes from Barclay's book on the nature of the [End Page 150] gift and Paul's unique understanding of grace as both incongruous and transformative. Second, the article will examine similar ways of reflecting on the Christian life in light of Aquinas's theology, with particular attention given to his commentaries on Paul. I will argue that Aquinas both confirms many of Barclay's insights and deepens—and gently corrects—the understanding of the gift of Christ as perfective of the Torah and creative of the new order in the Church. Barclay: Pauline Grace as a Uniquely Transformative Gift The Modern Distortion of the Gift The phenomenon of the gift is reminiscent of Augustine's comments on time. We think we know what time is until we try to speak about it. Gifts are similar in many ways. We exchange gifts commonly. We use the language of self gift in the areas of the moral life and sexuality. We speak about God's gift of his Son. May gifts be taken back by the giver..." @default.
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• W2921588897 title "Love as the Law of the Gift: Reading Paul with John Barclay and Aquinas" @default.
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