Rescuing the Church from Consumerism
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Rescuing the Church from Consumerism

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eBook - ePub

Rescuing the Church from Consumerism

About this book

Rescuing the Church... examines how people are initiated into a consumer culture during childhood and thus drawn into pursuing a vocation as consumers by means of various quasi-sacramental rites and practices.

The upshot of this is that the church today is composed primarily of men and women whose lives are situated more within a consumer culture than within a distinctively Christian one.

In order for the church to free itself, the author believes it must reclaim a sacramental identity that is grounded in a narrative tradition and realized in real, local worshipping communities.

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Yes, you can access Rescuing the Church from Consumerism by Mark Clavier in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Christianity. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780281070381
eBook ISBN
9780281070398

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author information
  3. Title page
  4. Imprint
  5. Table of contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1. The cult of consumerism
  8. 2. Initiation into consumerism
  9. 3. The consumer rites of adulthood
  10. 4. A Church for consumer tribes
  11. 5. Alienated sacraments
  12. 6. The household of God
  13. 7. Principles for a domestic Church
  14. Notes
  15. References