Blessed excess : religion and the hyperbolic imagination

Author(s)

• Webb, Stephen H.

Bibliographic Information

Blessed excess : religion and the hyperbolic imagination

Stephen H. Webb

（SUNY series in rhetoric and theology）

State University of New York Press, c1993

• : pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-200) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Table of Contents

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA21735392
• ISBN:
  • 0791413578
  • 0791413586
• LCCN: 92006298
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 203 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BL48
  • DC20 : 200/.14
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Religion
  • LCSH : Hyperbole
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13602815