Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint

Sallie McFague s Blessed are the Consumers is a direct challenge to consumerist society and shows how we are all implicated. McFague brings a much needed and well developed ethic of restraint to the field of ecotheology. She calls us to move from belief to action, from denial to profound change at both personal and public levels. McFague clarifies the problems and promises of Christianity as a model that sees self and planetary flourishing as interdependent. McFague draws from a lifetime love affair with saints, a theology acumen few have acquired, and a steadfast commitment to confronting the economic roots of the planetary crisis. This is the religious call of today we need to change profoundly and urgently. –Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University, Ottawa

Sallie McFague s Blessed are the Consumers is a direct challenge to consumerist society and shows how we are all implicated. McFague brings a much needed and well developed ethic of restraint to the field of ecotheology. She calls us to move from belief to action, from denial to profound change at both personal and public levels. McFague clarifies the problems and promises of Christianity as a model that sees self and planetary flourishing as interdependent. McFague draws from a lifetime love affair with saints, a theological acumen few have acquired, and a steadfast commitment to confronting the economic roots of the planetary crisis. This is the religious call of today we need to change profoundly and urgently. –Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University, Ottawa