One of philosopher Slavoj Zizek’s most admirable moves is his insistence on the gift’s debt-erasingness. But it seems his – and not only his – passion for the gift’s gratuity – exemplified by the figure of Christ – obscures what is genuinely ingenious about the gift and the gift of the Christic : that it is dual, duplicitous, double-sided; both gratuitous and circular, both debt-erasing and debt-arousing. To be sure, what is required in an age of an all-calculating capitalism is a remembering and re-affirm-ation of excess. And yet, in an age of unparalleled ecological squandering, what is also required is a re-commitment to reciprocity. Christianity’s Geniestreich therefore appears to lie in its both/and.