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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813519503321

Autore

Webb Stephen H. <1961->

Titolo

The gifting God : a trinitarian ethics of excess / / Stephen H. Webb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773928-8

1-280-45235-8

0-19-534456-1

1-4237-5927-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

248.4

Soggetti

Generosity - Religious aspects - Christianity

Trinity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Giving and Thinking; 1. The Return of the Gift; 2. Squandering; 3. The Theo-Economics of God; 4. How Giving Works; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Theories of generosity, or gift giving, are becoming increasingly important in recent work in philosophy and religion. Stephen Webb seeks to build on this interest by surveying a distinctively modern and postmodern approach to the issue of generosity and developing a theological framework for it.