| Author: | Mark Clavier | ISBN: | 9780281070398 |
| Publisher: | SPCK | Publication: | August 1, 2013 |
| Imprint: | SPCK | Language: | English |
| Author: | Mark Clavier |
| ISBN: | 9780281070398 |
| Publisher: | SPCK |
| Publication: | August 1, 2013 |
| Imprint: | SPCK |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
