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Rescuing the Church from Consumerism New Edition
Author(s): Mark Clavier (Author)
- Publisher: SPCK Publishing
- Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2013
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 160 pages
- ISBN-10: 0281070385
- ISBN-13: 9780281070381
Book Description
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.
