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Rescuing the Church from Consumerism
Rescuing the Church from Consumerism
Rescuing the Church from Consumerism
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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.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherSPCK
Release dateAug 1, 2013
ISBN9780281070398
Rescuing the Church from Consumerism
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Mark Clavier

Mark Clavier is Acting Principal and Dean of Residential Training at St. Michael's Theological College in Llandaff, Wales, and Lecturer in Theology at Cardiff University. He served for over fifteen years in churches in Maryland, North Carolina and England. He is the author of Rescuing the Church from Consumerism and Eloquent Wisdom: Theology, Cosmology and Delight in the Theology of Augustine of Hippo.

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