Recovering World-Welcoming Words: Language, Metaphysics, and the Voice of Nature

This article presents a theological–literary response to concern in contemporary theory with heeding and articulating the speech of nonhuman things. Drawing from Rowan Williams’ metaphysics poetic addition, I argue that an ‘ecotheological’ literary practice challenges us become attentive responsive language nonhuman, by creatively performing co-mingling human language. Jean-Louis Chrétien’s phenomenology voice, propose theological conception as gift hospitality voice things is also addition—a ‘saying more’ which, adding being world, manifests its gift-like nature. In contrast recent critical approaches, for qualified retrieval ‘nature’ figure both theological, gives speaks means production. Through reading Shakespeare’s King Lear, show paradoxical ambiguities sense serve precisely shed light on suspect modern iteration, while at same time taking beyond critique enable cautious yet symbolic scope.