The consuming passion
Subtitle: Christianity & the consumer culture
By: edited by Rodney Clapp.
Contributors: Clapp, Rodney.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Downers Grove, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Christianity and culture.
Description: Nothing may influence and affect the faith of Christians in the Western, "developed" world so much as consumerism. Theologians and biblical scholars have often pondered the dangers and the privileges of money. But few have focused on consumption as culture or a way of life, complete with its own set of attitudes, behaviors and purposes for living. The Consuming Passion does exactly that, relying on insightful theologians, psychologists, sociologists, ecologists and economists to probe beneath and better understand what makes consumer culture work - and how people of faith might best respond.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-223).