Consuming Jesus :beyond race and class divisions in a consumer church /Paul Louis Metzger.
Description
Foreword / Donald Miller -- Introduction: trading stone altars for coffee bars -- A faulty order : retreating battle camps and homogeneous units -- Disordered vision : battling the consumer balrog -- Reordering the cosmic powers : turning tables at the stone table -- Reordering the Christian's life : the supernatural shakeup -- Reordering the church : recovering the lost ark -- Reordering the church's outreach : overcoming market forces and building beloved community -- Conclusion: a nobler vision of patchwork quilts and church potlucks.
x, 191 pages ;23 cm
Book Details
Author
Metzger, Paul Louis.
Place Published
City
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Date Published
2007
Publication Subjects
Food--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Dinners and dining--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Church.
Consumption (Economics)--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Materialism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Social classes.
Church.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00860364
Consumption (Economics)--Religious aspects--Christianity.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00876472
Dinners and dining--Religious aspects--Christianity.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00893958
Food--Religious aspects--Christianity.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00930590
Materialism--Religious aspects--Christianity.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01011764
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01086528
Social classes.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01122346
Call No.
BR115 .N87 M48 2007
ISBN
9780802830685, 0802830684
LCCN
2007026264
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Carrier type: volumencrdacarrier
Media type: unmediatednrdamedia