Being Called Together – Jean-Louis Chrétien and the Ecological Art of Creaturely Vocation
This essay offers a constructive unfolding of Jean-Louis Chrétien’s claim that the first vocation is the vocation to be. By exploring Chrétien’s phenomenology of call and response, this essay (i) offers an account of creaturely life as a sign of the infinite, non-sequential call and response of the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2026
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Journal for continental philosophy of religion
Year: 2026, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 32-60 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Chrétien B Creature B Ecology B Vocation |
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| Summary: | This essay offers a constructive unfolding of Jean-Louis Chrétien’s claim that the first vocation is the vocation to be. By exploring Chrétien’s phenomenology of call and response, this essay (i) offers an account of creaturely life as a sign of the infinite, non-sequential call and response of the intratinitarian life; (ii) suggests that this linguistic ontology makes possible a normative account of ecology as a conversation (rather than a purely descriptive account of ecology as a system), in which the plenitude of things emerges together; and (iii) argues that creatures inhabit their creaturely vocation by repairing and nurturing the relationship between things, creating something that is greater than the sum of its parts in a way akin to the choreographing of beauty in a work of art. |
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| ISSN: | 2588-9613 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for continental philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/25889613-bja10087 |
