Having: Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life

Editor) Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life Trade paperback, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2004 English 415 pages 0802824846 9780802824844 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