Rescuing the Church from Consumerism

By Mark Clavier

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0281070385
• ISBN13: 9780281070381
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"