  In this work, we propose a topological quantum field theory phase for
four-dimensional gravity. We show it is able to generate, not only General
Relativity, but the whole family of Lovelock-Cartan theories of gravity. This
is accomplished due to the existence of a topological symmetry that, when
explicitly broken, via the introduction of a mass scale, releases the local
degrees of freedom of gravity. Additionally, we introduce an extended notion of
the (anti-)self-dual Landau gauge conditions to evaluate the Ward identities,
counterterms, and prove the quantum stability of the model, to all orders in
perturbation theory, using the algebraic renormalization technique.
