God's Gift Giving: In Christ and Through the Spirit Book

God and Gift Giving     1
Contemporary Philosophical and Theological Reflections on Gift Giving     4
God's Gift Giving as Constitutive of Human Persons and Communities     16
Jesus Christ as Knower and Lover     20
Eucharist as a Sharing in the Life of the Lord Jesus     26
Gift of God's Presence     34
God's Gift of Sacrifice     38
Sacrifice in Contemporary Culture     40
Sacrifice and Creation     45
Sacrifice in the Bible     51
Rethinking Patripassianism     61
Panentheism and God's Presence in a Scientific World     68
Sacrifice and Eucharist     71
Some Conclusions     77
God's Gift Giving and Christ as Victim in the Eucharist     81
Exodus and Liberation     82
Exile and Return     86
Priestly Story     91
Contemporary Re-Interpretation of the Cross and Jesus as Victim     98
Original Sin     101
Sebastian Moore and the Emerging Self     103
Eucharist as Communion with the Crucified and Risen Lord Jesus     112
God's Gift of Word and Sacrament     117
God's Word in Scripture     120
God's Word in the New Testament     129
God's Gift of Sacrament     134
God's Gift of the Spirit     153
The Spirit in the Old Testament     163
God's Spirit in the New Testament     166
God's Spirit in the Christian Tradition     169
Vatican II and the Spirit     174
The Spirit and Spirituality     177
The Spirit and the Liturgy     180
The Creator Spirit     184
God's Gift Giving: Some Pastoral Implications     191
God's Gift of Forgiveness     200
God's Gift of the Poor     206
God's Gift of Healing     212
God's Gift of the Eucharist     231
Index     243