Rescuing the Church from Consumerism
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780281070381
Description: 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.