Blessed Are the Consumers
Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint
1st Edition
Published on 12. February 2013
246 pages
978-1-4514-3867-3 (ISBN)
Description
For decades, Sallie McFague has lent her voice and her theological imagination to addressing and advocating for the most important issues of our time. In doing so, she has influenced an entire generation, and empowered countless people in their efforts to put religion in the service of meeting human needs in difficult times.
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.
The root of restraint, she argues, rests in the ancient Christian notion of Kenosis, or self-emptying.
By introducing Kenosis through the life stories of John Woolman, Simone Weil, and Dorothy Day, McFague brings a powerful theological concept to bear in a winsome and readable way.
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Content
- Intro
- Preface: Religion, Ecology, and Economics
- 1 ``But Enough about Me'': What Does Augustine's Confessions Have to Do with Facebook?
- 2 ``Where Are We?'': Living Well on Planet Earth
- 3 The Lives of the Saints: John Woolman, Simone Weil, and Dorothy Day
- 4 The Practice of the Saints 1: Voluntary Poverty in Order to Pay Attention to the Material Needs of Others
- 5 The Practice of the Saints 2: The Development of the Universal Self at Local and Global Levels
- 6 ``It's Not About You'': Kenosis as a Way to Live
- 7 Kenotic Theology
- 8 What Next?: Living the Kenotic Life Personally, Professionally, and Publicly
- Index
