Having: Property and Possession in Religious and Social LifeWilliam Schweiker, Charles T. Mathewes Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004 - 415 páginas In today's market economies, people constitute much of their identity in relation to the things they possess, and communities facilitate social intercourse and survival by means of property relations. What, if anything, might the study of the biblical religions contribute to thinking about and responding to the basic reality of "having"? In this book scholars in a variety of fields -- theology, ethics, economics, and biblical studies -- address in new and penetrating ways the meaning of "having" in religious and social life and offer a number of compelling answers to challenging questions about property and possession in our present, global age. |
Contenido
Acknowledgments Vill | 1 |
Love Law and the Ethics | 51 |
The Body and Projects of SelfPossession | 141 |
What Is Enough? Catholic Social Thought | 162 |
On Using the World | 189 |
The Paradox of Property and Possession | 222 |
Reconsidering Greed | 249 |
Avarice Prudence and the Bourgeois Virtues | 312 |
The Moral Economy of Ownership | 337 |
Bibliographic Resources on Property | 383 |
Términos y frases comunes
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