On Consumer Culture Identity The Church And The Rhetorics Of Delight

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The Reading Augustine series presents short, engaging books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo's contributions to western philosophical, literary, and religious life. Mark Clavier's On Consumer Culture, Identity, The Church and the Rhetorics of Delight draws on Augustine of Hippo to provide a theological explanation for the success of marketing and consumer culture. Augustine's thought, rooted in rhetorical theory, presents a brilliant understanding of the experiences of damnation and salvation that takes seriously the often hidden psychology of human motivation. Clavier examines how Augustine's keen insight into the power of delight over personal notions of freedom and self-identity can be used to shed light on how the constant lure of promised happiness shapes our identities as consumers. From Augustine's perspective, it is only by addressing the sources of delight within consumerism and by rediscovering the wellsprings of God's delight that we can effectively challenge consumer culture. To an age awash with commercial rhetoric, the fifth-century Bishop of Hippo offers a theological rhetoric that is surprisingly contemporary and insightful.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Mark Clavier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release : 2018-11-29
File : 169 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781501330957


Catechesis

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Catechesis is not just about right teaching, it is a cultivation of a living faith within the community of the Church. Christian faith and theology are performed in the sacramental, communal, and missional life of the Church, and catechesis is an invitation into this lived reality. This book explores the nature of catechesis and how catechesis within our churches can shape the Christian community into an instrument of renewal in the world through the formation of holy living. It argues that the future of catechesis in the life of the Church is to be found in this holistic discipleship, and explores this holistic vision by examining catechesis in its relationship to Christian worship and liturgy, the teaching of doctrine, mission and social action, evangelism, preaching, communal life, and the sacraments.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Jarred Mercer
Publisher : SCM Press
Release : 2020-11-30
File : 79 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780334059417


Commodified Communion

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WINNER, 2021 HTI BOOK PRIZE Resist! This exhortation animates a remarkable range of theological reflection on consumer culture in the United States. And for many theologians, the source and summit of Christian cultural resistance is the Eucharist. In Commodified Communion, Antonio Eduardo Alonso calls into question this dominant mode of theological reflection on contemporary consumerism. Reducing the work of theology to resistance and centering Christian hope in a Eucharist that might better support it, he argues, undermines our ability to talk about the activity of God within a consumer culture. By reframing the question in terms of God’s activity in and in spite of consumer culture, this book offers a lived theological account of consumer culture that recognizes not only its deceptions but also traces of truth in its broken promises and fallen hopes.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Antonio Eduardo Alonso
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Release : 2021-06-01
File : 126 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780823294138


Religious And Theological Abstracts

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Genre : Religion
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Release : 2004
File : 688 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSC:32106017817807


American Doctoral Dissertations

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Genre : Dissertation abstracts
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Release : 1998
File : 784 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015086908186


Dissertation Abstracts International

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Genre : Dissertations, Academic
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Release : 2008
File : 522 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105131550381


Religion Index One

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Genre : Religion
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Release : 2000
File : 800 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015079910033


The British National Bibliography

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Genre : Bibliography, National
Author : Arthur James Wells
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Release : 2009
File : 1922 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105211722678


American Book Publishing Record

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Here's quick access to more than 490,000 titles published from 1970 to 1984 arranged in Dewey sequence with sections for Adult and Juvenile Fiction. Author and Title indexes are included, and a Subject Guide correlates primary subjects with Dewey and LC classification numbers. These cumulative records are available in three separate sets.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Release : 1977-03-31
File : 1296 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105210122268


The Art Bulletin

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Includes section: Notes and reviews.

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Genre : Art
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Release : 2005
File : 786 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015064362935