  The search for the gravitational energy-momentum tensor is often qualified as
an attempt of looking for ``the right answer to the wrong question''. This
position does not seem convincing to us. We think that we have found the right
answer to the properly formulated question. We have further developed the field
theoretical formulation of the general relativity which treats gravity as a
non-linear tensor field in flat space-time. The Minkowski metric is a
reflection of experimental facts, not a possible choice of the artificial
``prior geometry''. In this approach, we have arrived at the gravitational
energy-momentum tensor which is: 1) derivable from the Lagrangian in a regular
prescribed way, 2) tensor under arbitrary coordinate transformations, 3)
symmetric in its components, 4) conserved due to the equations of motion
derived from the same Lagrangian, 5) free of the second (highest) derivatives
of the field variables, and 6) is unique up to trivial modifications not
containing the field variables. There is nothing else, in addition to these 6
conditions, that one could demand from an energy-momentum object, acceptable
both on physical and mathematical grounds. The derived gravitational
energy-momentum tensor should be useful in practical applications.
