Blessed Are the Consumers : Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McFague, Sallie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Consumption (Economics) > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Christian saints.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
Écologie humaine > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Christian saints > Biography.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Religion, ecology, and economics
  • "But enough about me": what does Augustine's Confessions have to do with Facebook?
  • "Where are we?": living well on planet earth
  • Lives of the saints: John Woolman, Simone Weil, And Dorothy Day
  • Practice of the saints I: voluntary poverty
  • Practice of the saints II: the development of the universal self
  • "It's not about you": kenosis as a way of life
  • Kenotic theology
  • "What next?" living the kenotic life personally, professionally, and publicly.

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