The Gifting God
A Trinitarian Ethics of Excess
1st Edition
Published on 18. April 1996
201 pages
978-0-19-534456-1 (ISBN)
Description
Theories of generosity, or gift giving, are becoming increasingly important in recent work in philosophy and religion. Stephen Webb seeks to build on this renewed interest by surveying a distinctively modern and postmodern approach to the issue of generosity, and then developing a theological framework for it. He contends that in many ways society has become suspicious of charity and generosity. This cynicism has led to quick and easy judgments, that, in turn, have led to a new orthodoxy with its own troubling consequences. Webb believes that we need to recover the generosity that our culture obscures behind this monologue on self-interest, and that theology, as a form of critical thought, can play a helpful role. Throughout the book, Webb argues for a theory of giving that is other-oriented without being self-negating. He maintains that the generosity of God's grace, properly understood, can reorient our own idea of the gift and must be correlated to our own practices of exchange and reciprocity.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: Giving and Thinking
- 1. The Return of the Gift
- Between Excess and Exchange
- Style and Function
- The Gift of Marcel Mauss
- Marshall Sahlins and the Recovery of Abundance
- Pierre Bourdieu and the Total Critique of Giving
- Richard Titmus and the Social Utility of Giving
- Lewis Hyde and the Community of the Gifted
- 2. Squandering
- Against Gratitude
- Emerson and the Denial of Debt
- Nietzsche and Self-Giving
- Derrida and the End(lessness) of Giving
- 3. The Theo-Economics of God
- Giving the Given Gift
- Calvin and the Labor of Gratitude
- Karl Barth and God's Freedom
- Charles Hartshorne and God's Reciprocity
- Sallie McFague and God's Embodiment
- Mark C. Taylor and God's Radical Immanence
- Peter C. Hodgson and God's Persuasive Dialectics
- 4. How Giving Works
- Giving and Being
- Giving and Saving
- God the Giver
- God the Given
- God the Giving
- Notes
- Index
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