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Having : property and possession in religious and social life / edited by William Schweiker & Charles Mathewes.

Contributor(s): Schweiker, William | Mathewes, Charles T, 1969-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2004Description: ix, 415 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0802824846 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Property -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines | Property -- Biblical teachingDDC classification: 178 LOC classification: BR115.E3 | H345 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction / William Schweiker and Charles Mathewes -- Property and possession in light of the Ten Commandments / Patrick D. Miller -- Sharing and loving: love, law, and the ethics of cultural memory in the Pentateuch / Andreas Schuele -- Possessing wealth, possessing women, possessing self: the shame of biblical discourse / Claudia V. Camp -- Silver chamber pots and other goods which are not good: John Chrysostom's discourse against wealth and possessions / Margaret M. Mitchell -- Subjectivist "faith" as a religious trap / Michael Welker -- The body and projects of self-possession / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- What is enough? Catholic social thought, consumption, and material sufficiency / Christine Firer Hinze -- On using the world / Charles Mathewes -- Material grace: the paradox of property and possession / David E. Klemm -- Reconsidering greed / William Schweiker -- The cultural contest for our attention: observations on media, property, and religion / Günter Thomas -- Identity, possession, and myth on the web: yearning for Jerusalem / David M. Gunn -- Avarice, prudence, and the bourgeois virtues / Deirdre McCloskey -- Property and possession: the moral economy of ownership / Arjo Klamer -- Economies of grace / Kathryn Tanner -- Appendix: Bibliographic resources on property and possession: a critical analysis / Jonathan R. Gangle.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / William Schweiker and Charles Mathewes -- Property and possession in light of the Ten Commandments / Patrick D. Miller -- Sharing and loving: love, law, and the ethics of cultural memory in the Pentateuch / Andreas Schuele -- Possessing wealth, possessing women, possessing self: the shame of biblical discourse / Claudia V. Camp -- Silver chamber pots and other goods which are not good: John Chrysostom's discourse against wealth and possessions / Margaret M. Mitchell -- Subjectivist "faith" as a religious trap / Michael Welker -- The body and projects of self-possession / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- What is enough? Catholic social thought, consumption, and material sufficiency / Christine Firer Hinze -- On using the world / Charles Mathewes -- Material grace: the paradox of property and possession / David E. Klemm -- Reconsidering greed / William Schweiker -- The cultural contest for our attention: observations on media, property, and religion / Günter Thomas -- Identity, possession, and myth on the web: yearning for Jerusalem / David M. Gunn -- Avarice, prudence, and the bourgeois virtues / Deirdre McCloskey -- Property and possession: the moral economy of ownership / Arjo Klamer -- Economies of grace / Kathryn Tanner -- Appendix: Bibliographic resources on property and possession: a critical analysis / Jonathan R. Gangle.

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