Title: Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0802830684
ISBN 13: 9780802830685
Binding: paperback
Condition: New
Weight: 10 ounces

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Foreword by Donald Miller
Afterword by John M. Perkins

Many Americans think that race problems are a thing of the past because we no longer live under the Jim Crow laws that once sustained overt structures of segregation. Unfortunately, says Paul Louis Metzger, today we live under an updated version of segregation, through the subtle power of unchallenged norms of consumer preference.

Consumerism affects and infects the church, reinforcing race and class divisions in society. Intentionally or unintentionally, many churches have set up structures of church growth that foster segregation, such as appealing to consumer appetites. Metzger here argues that the evangelical Christian church needs to admit this fault and intentionally move away from race, class, and consumer segregation.

Challenging the consumerism that fosters ethnic and economic divisions and distorts evangelical Christianity, Consuming Jesus puts forth a theologically grounded call to restructure the church's passions and practices, transforming the evangelical imagination around a nobler, all-consuming vision of the Christian faith.

Visit the Consuming Jesus blog created by the The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins at: http://consumingjesus.org/

About the Author

Paul Louis Metzger is professor of Christian theology and theology of culture at Multnomah Biblical Seminary.

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