Detta urgamla poetiska verk från Mellanöstern tolkas här av bibelforskaren Tryggve Mettinger

The bibliography and suggestions for further reading are updated and each chapter includes a list of study questions

and his books have been translated into eight languages

are Card's paradigms because in them these key elements are writ large

så romarnas och Bysantinska rikets huvudstad

God and the Gift: An Ecumenical Theology of Giving Stående kors Detta urgamla poetiska verk frånGod and the Gift is the first systematic account of the theology of giving, receiving, and the gift. It employs material from the contemporary debate in the humanities (Mauss, Godbout, Derrida, Marion) and ecumenical theology (Lumen Gentium, Catholic Lutheran Joint Declaration, Anglican Catholic Gift of Authority, John Milbank, Dorothea Wendebourg, Margaret O'Gara) but is basically an original attempt to build an ecumenical theology of forgiveness,