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Blessed excess : religion and the hyperbolic imagination

Print Book, English, ©1993
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©1993
xviii, 203 pages ; 24 cm.
9780791413579, 9780791413586, 0791413578, 0791413586
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Re-figuring religion: toward a hyperbolic imagination
The (Il)logic of excess: the test case of "God is love"
More than too much: Kierkegaard's works of love revisited
Sacrifice as surplus: Georges Bataille and the economy of excess in itself
Life over the edges: Flannery O'Connor's dis-grace-full extremity
Excess (un)bound: G.K. Chesterton and the question of Orthodoxy
Figures of excess: going too far