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Blessed Excess

Religion and the Hyperbolic Imagination

Blessed Excess

Religion and the Hyperbolic Imagination

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Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 9780791413586
Number of Pages: 203

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Re-Figuring Religion: Toward a Hyperbolic Imagination

1. The (Il)Logic of Excess: The Test Case of "God is Love"

2. More Than Too Much: Kierkegaard's Works of Love Revisited

3. Sacrifice as Surplus: Georges Bataille and the Economy of Excess in Itself

4. Life Over the Edges: Flannery O'Connor's Dis-Grace-Full Extremity

5. Excess (Un)Bound: G. K. Chesterton and the Question of Orthodoxy

6. Figures of Excess: Going Too Far

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Stephen H. Webb

Stephen H. Webb is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Wabash College. He is the author of Re-figuring Theology: The Rhetoric of Karl Barth, also published by SUNY Press.

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