Tantur Ecumenical Institute LibraryHaving : property and possession in religious and social life /
Having : property and possession in religious and social life /
edited by William Schweiker & Charles Mathewes.
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., c2004.
- ix, 415 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-415).
Introduction / Property and possession in light of the Ten Commandments / Sharing and loving: love, law, and the ethics of cultural memory in the Pentateuch / Possessing wealth, possessing women, possessing self: the shame of biblical discourse / Silver chamber pots and other goods which are not good: John Chrysostom's discourse against wealth and possessions / Subjectivist "faith" as a religious trap / The body and projects of self-possession / What is enough? Catholic social thought, consumption, and material sufficiency / On using the world / Material grace: the paradox of property and possession / Reconsidering greed / The cultural contest for our attention: observations on media, property, and religion / Identity, possession, and myth on the web: yearning for Jerusalem / Avarice, prudence, and the bourgeois virtues / Property and possession: the moral economy of ownership / Economies of grace / Appendix: Bibliographic resources on property and possession: a critical analysis / William Schweiker and Charles Mathewes -- Patrick D. Miller -- Andreas Schuele -- Claudia V. Camp -- Margaret M. Mitchell -- Michael Welker -- Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Christine Firer Hinze -- Charles Mathewes -- David E. Klemm -- William Schweiker -- Günter Thomas -- David M. Gunn -- Deirdre McCloskey -- Arjo Klamer -- Kathryn Tanner -- Jonathan R. Gangle.
0802824846 (alk. paper)
2003064344
Property--Biblical teaching.
Property--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.
BR 115 .E3 / H345 2004
178 / Sch97h
Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-415).
Introduction / Property and possession in light of the Ten Commandments / Sharing and loving: love, law, and the ethics of cultural memory in the Pentateuch / Possessing wealth, possessing women, possessing self: the shame of biblical discourse / Silver chamber pots and other goods which are not good: John Chrysostom's discourse against wealth and possessions / Subjectivist "faith" as a religious trap / The body and projects of self-possession / What is enough? Catholic social thought, consumption, and material sufficiency / On using the world / Material grace: the paradox of property and possession / Reconsidering greed / The cultural contest for our attention: observations on media, property, and religion / Identity, possession, and myth on the web: yearning for Jerusalem / Avarice, prudence, and the bourgeois virtues / Property and possession: the moral economy of ownership / Economies of grace / Appendix: Bibliographic resources on property and possession: a critical analysis / William Schweiker and Charles Mathewes -- Patrick D. Miller -- Andreas Schuele -- Claudia V. Camp -- Margaret M. Mitchell -- Michael Welker -- Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Christine Firer Hinze -- Charles Mathewes -- David E. Klemm -- William Schweiker -- Günter Thomas -- David M. Gunn -- Deirdre McCloskey -- Arjo Klamer -- Kathryn Tanner -- Jonathan R. Gangle.
0802824846 (alk. paper)
2003064344
Property--Biblical teaching.
Property--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.
BR 115 .E3 / H345 2004
178 / Sch97h