ABSTRACT
Hospitality in talking about God suggests a language of being and sharing. We can trace notions of the hospitable God in the pre-modern era, in modernity and in postmodernity. Through the notions of God, gift, generosity and the language of hospitality, we may reconsider the shapes of theological rationality, in Christian and non-Christian religious traditions. 'The Category of "gift" has become the central constellating themes for discussion in recent postmodern theology'. Hospitable God is the goal of emancipatory theology expressed through being/active love/creation/redemption. Hospitable faith attempts to express faith afresh in reviewing our image of God Belief in God usually derives as much from the Christian tradition, the events concerning Jesus, as from contemplating the question of what it is for there to be a God. Hospitality can be conceived as a mode of God's being in action. This means that all talk of hospitable action is ultimately attributable to the being of God.
