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Blessed Excess : Religion and the Hyperbolic Imagination by Stephen H. Webb (1993, Hardcover)

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PublisherSTATE University of New York Press

ISBN-100791413578

ISBN-139780791413579

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Product Key Features

Number of Pages203 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBlessed Excess : Religion and the Hyperbolic Imagination

Publication Year1993

SubjectGeneral

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion

AuthorStephen H. Webb

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight16.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN92-006298

Reviews"This book builds on existing theories of religion and identifies hyperbole as a characteristic of religious understanding. Until now, no one has explicated hyperbole systematically in relation to other tropes--irony, metaphor, analogy, understatement. In so doing, Webb brings genuinely new insight into religion as an intensification of ordinary experience. His choice of texts to illustrate different ways in which hyperbole can function in theological reflection is felicitous. 1 John 4:7, Kierkegaard, Bataille, O'Connor, and Chesterton provide a broad range of test-cases: classical and contemporary, Protestant and Catholic, male- and female-authored, and multiple genres." -- Mary Gerhart, Hobart and William Smith Colleges "Webb's approach makes possible important and wonderfully fresh ideas on old theological questions, such as evil, God's love, sacrifice, redemption, and grace. The approach suggests a new and very fruitful way to think about various religions. I am eager to spend some time comparing Taoism and Buddhism with respect to their hyperboles, for I suspect I'll finally be able to see just where the real difference between the two styles of thinking lies. I suspect that Taoism's hyperboles are much more like Christianity's than like those in Buddhism." -- David B. Greene, North Carolina State University

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal200/.14

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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

LC Classification NumberBL48.W313 1993