Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint - Softcover

Sallie McFague

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800699602 ISBN 13: 9780800699604

Publisher: 1517 Media; Fortress Press, 2013

Synopsis

In this timely book, McFague recalls her readers to the practices of restraint. In a world bent on consumption it is imperative that people of religious faith realize the significant role they play in advocating for the earth, and a more humane life for all.

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Review

The political parties in the United States continue to ignore the twin, globally decisive, questions of income distribution and ecological catastrophe. These questions are central to this book. Most Christian responses to these apocalyptic challenges talk about what other people, governments, or corporations should be doing. This book addresses us as Christians and invites us to live as Christians. If thousands of readers take this challenge seriously, we may yet be effective workers with God in the salvation of the world. --John B. Cobb Jr., The Center for Process Studies

Sallie McFague s Blessed are the Consumers is a direct challenge to consumerist society and shows how we are all implicated. McFague brings a much needed and well developed ethic of restraint to the field of ecotheology. She calls us to move from belief to action, from denial to profound change at both personal and public levels. McFague clarifies the problems and promises of Christianity as a model that sees self and planetary flourishing as interdependent. McFague draws from a lifetime love affair with saints, a theology acumen few have acquired, and a steadfast commitment to confronting the economic roots of the planetary crisis. This is the religious call of today we need to change profoundly and urgently. --Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University, Ottawa

Sallie McFague s Blessed are the Consumers is a direct challenge to consumerist society and shows how we are all implicated. McFague brings a much needed and well developed ethic of restraint to the field of ecotheology. She calls us to move from belief to action, from denial to profound change at both personal and public levels. McFague clarifies the problems and promises of Christianity as a model that sees self and planetary flourishing as interdependent. McFague draws from a lifetime love affair with saints, a theological acumen few have acquired, and a steadfast commitment to confronting the economic roots of the planetary crisis. This is the religious call of today we need to change profoundly and urgently. --Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University, Ottawa

What is more important than the question this book asks: how, in a time of climate change, shall we live well? With her blend of stirring clarity as to the stakes and narrative radiance attracting us face them, McFague has delivered the work of a lifetime. --Catherine Keller, Drew University

Sallie McFague s Blessed are the Consumers is a direct challenge to consumerist society and shows how we are all implicated. McFague brings a much needed and well developed ethic of restraint to the field of ecotheology. She calls us to move from belief to action, from denial to profound change at both personal and public levels. McFague clarifies the problems and promises of Christianity as a model that sees self and planetary flourishing as interdependent. McFague draws from a lifetime love affair with saints, a theological acumen few have acquired, and a steadfast commitment to confronting the economic roots of the planetary crisis. This is the religious call of today we need to change profoundly and urgently. --Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University, Ottawa

What is more important than the question this book asks: how, in a time of climate change, shall we live well? With her blend of stirring clarity as to the stakes and narrative radiance attracting us face them, McFague has delivered the work of a lifetime. --Catherine Keller, Drew University

About this edition

• Publisher: 1517 Media; Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0800699602
• ISBN 13: 9780800699604
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208