Rescuing the Church from Consumerism

Mark Clavier

ISBN 10: 0281070385 / ISBN 13: 9780281070381

Published by SPCK Publishing, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rescuing the Church from Consumerism
• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0281070385
• ISBN 13: 9780281070381
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

The Revd Dr Mark Clavier is Dean of Residential Training at St Michael’s College, Llandaff. He served in parishes in Maryland and North Carolina before moving to England five years ago. Since then, he has been a house-for-duty priest in County Durham, and Priest-in-Charge of three churches in Oxford diocese.