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Commodified Communion

Author : Antonio Eduardo Alonso
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823294137
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Commodified Communion written by Antonio Eduardo Alonso and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Commodified Communion

Author : Antonio Eduardo Alonso
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823294145
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Commodified Communion written by Antonio Eduardo Alonso and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Professing Darkness

Author : D. Marcel DeCoste
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807182311
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Professing Darkness written by D. Marcel DeCoste and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professing Darkness confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical outlook of the work of Cormac McCarthy and, more specifically, its consistent assessment of Enlightenment values and their often-catastrophic realization in American history. D. Marcel DeCoste surveys McCarthy’s fiction from both his Tennessee and Southwest periods, with chapters devoted to eight of his published novels—from Outer Dark to The Road—and a conclusion that examines the writer’s screenplay for The Counselor and the duology of The Passenger and Stella Maris. DeCoste’s attentive, wide-ranging interpretations demonstrate that McCarthy’s work mounts a sustained critique of core Enlightenment ideals and their devastating results in the American context, especially for Indigenous peoples, the environment, the viability of community, and the integrity of a self irreducible to the status of a commodity. Professing Darkness shows that Roman Catholic understandings of Penance and Eucharist, along with specific Catholic teachings—such as those regarding the goodness of Creation, the nature of evil, the insufficiency of the self, and the radical invitation to conversion—enable McCarthy’s revelatory engagement with American Enlightenment. An important contribution to the ever-expanding critical literature on a towering contemporary author, Professing Darkness offers an innovative reading of both the spiritual and political valences of McCarthy’s writing.

The Uses of Idolatry

Author : William T. Cavanaugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197679056
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Uses of Idolatry written by William T. Cavanaugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Uses of Idolatry, William T. Cavanaugh offers a sustained and interdisciplinary argument that worship has not waned in our supposedly "secular" world. Rather, the target of worship has changed, migrating from the explicit worship of God to the implicit worship of things. Cavanaugh examines modern idolatries and the ways in which humans become dominated by our own creations. While Cavanaugh is critical of modern idolatries, his argument is also sympathetic, seeing in idolatry a deep longing in the human heart for the transformation of our lives. We all believe in something, he argues: we are worshipping creatures whose devotion alights on all sorts of things, in part because we are material creatures, and the material world is beautiful. Following an invisible God is hard for material creatures, so we-those who profess belief in God and those who don't-fixate on things that are closer to hand. Ranging widely across the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and cultural studies, Cavanaugh develops an account of modernity as not the condition of being disenchanted but the condition of having learned to describe the world as disenchanted. For a better description of the world, Cavanaugh turns to scriptural, theological, and phenomenological accounts of idolatry as inordinate devotion to created things. Through deep explorations of nationalism and consumer culture, The Uses of Idolatry presents a sympathetic but critical account of how and why we sacrifice ourselves and others to gods of our own design.

Economy and Modern Christian Thought

Author : Devin Singh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004517383
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Economy and Modern Christian Thought written by Devin Singh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the relationship between Christian thought and economy and raises philosophical, theological, and ethical issues that result from the engagement, and points the way to emerging research at this nexus.

The End of Theological Education

Author : Ted A. Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467462756
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book The End of Theological Education written by Ted A. Smith and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to envision theological education in this time between the times The dominant model of theological education is coming to an end—but Ted A. Smith looks to its ultimate ends as sources of hope and renewal. Smith locates the crisis facing theological education today in a sweeping history of religion in the United States, from the standing orders of the colonial period to the voluntary associations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He then connects today’s challenges to shifts in contemporary society, including declining religious affiliation, individualization, rising desires for authenticity, and the unraveling of professions. Smith refuses to tell the story as one of progress or decline. Instead, he puts theological education in eschatological perspective, understanding it in relation to its ultimate purpose: “knowledge of God, knowledge so deep, so intimate, that it requires and accomplishes our transformation.” This knowledge is not restricted to a professional clerical class but is given for the salvation of all. Seeing by the light of this hope, Smith calls readers to reimagine church, ministry, and theological education for this time between the times.

Divine Communion

Author : Jay Emerson Johnson
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 159627252X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Divine Communion written by Jay Emerson Johnson and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First text to place sexual ethics in a sacramental/liturgical context.Designed to meet the General Convention mandate for “theological reflection” around issues of sexuality and marriage.Appropriate for study regardless of gender or orientation.Before Christian communities try to address sexual ethics, the more fundamental theological question demands attention: What can sexual intimacy tell us about God? This book invites reflection on sexual relationships within a broad theological framework marked by creation, fall, and redemption. These classical hallmarks of Christian faith are proclaimed and enacted at every liturgical celebration of the Eucharist, which offers a compelling way to engage the link between sexual intimacy and the longing for God, or the hoped-for promise of “divine communion.”

The Sacraments and Consumer Culture

Author : Timothy Brunk
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814685323
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book The Sacraments and Consumer Culture written by Timothy Brunk and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Catholic Media Association Award first place award in sacraments What does consumerism have to do with the sacraments? We live in cultures where our senses of meaning, identity, and purpose are often found in what we purchase. Apart from the question of hedonism, there is the question of how we orient ourselves in an environment in which we end up marketing our very selves. In this book, Timothy Brunk examines how this consumer culture has had a corrosive effect on the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church. He also assesses how sacramental worship can provide resources for responsible Christian discipleship in today’s consumer culture.

The Spirit-Baptized Church

Author : Frank D. Macchia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567680673
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit-Baptized Church written by Frank D. Macchia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank D. Macchia argues that the Son of God baptized (and continues to baptize) humanity in the Spirit by pouring forth the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. All four Gospels and the book of Acts describe how the Son is sent of the Father and empowered by the Spirit to fulfil this mission; Macchia in turn claims that Christ succeeds by incorporating others into himself and into the love of the Father. The Spirit-Baptized Church proposes a richly pneumatological ecclesiology that is dominated by a Pentecostal confessional concern, while also open to a larger ecumenical conversation. The volume focuses not only on the dogmatic (Trinitarian) foundations and election processes of the Spirit-baptized church, but also on its marks and witnessing practices. As an exceptionally detailed study of the Spirit-baptismal metaphor, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars of ecclesiology, Pentecostalism, and systematic theology.

Remembering the Future

Author : Christopher J. Keller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498273769
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Remembering the Future written by Christopher J. Keller and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering the Future is a collection of poems, essays, and interviews that ask readers to see their world with double-vision-to imagine the redemptive consequences of engaging the world with a fastidious awareness of both the biblical tradition and the cultural moment. Remembering the Future is gathered from the first years of The Other Journal, an online quarterly positioned at the intersection of theology and culture. The Other Journal examines theology with fresh eyes, probing faith with passion, authenticity, and creativity; and this anthology represents the highlights of that endeavor, including content from some of the most important voices in the field of theology today. Remembering the Future offers readers an engaging, thought-provoking picture of what sound theological thinking can and must offer today's Christians giving witness to Christ in our contemporary cultural landscape.

Commodified Bodies

Author : Oliver Decker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134643810
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Commodified Bodies written by Oliver Decker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commodified Bodies examines the social practice of organ transplantation and trafficking and scrutinises the increasingly neoliberal tendencies in the medical system. It analyses phenomena such as the denomination of human body parts as "raw materials" and "commodities," or the arguments used by the proponents for a free market solution. Moreover, it argues that modern medicine is still linked with its religious roots. The commodification of body parts is seen not as an imperialistic act of the market, but as the end of a historical process as the notion of "fetishism" links the market with the body. Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism and Sigmund Freud’s theory of the perverted use of objects are modified and adapted to the reconstruction of the joint beginnings of market and medicine.

The Theming Of America

Author : Mark Gottdiener
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000306275
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Theming Of America written by Mark Gottdiener and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Gottdiener explores the nature of social change as it has developed since the 1960s as reflected in the "theming" of America, from Graceland to Dollywood, from Las Vegas to Disney World, from the Mall of America to your local mall. Nowhere can modern Americans escape the profusion of recognizable symbols and signs attached to virtually every aspect of their culture constantly reminding them that they are on familiar and comforting grounds. "Just come in, friend, and buy; make yourself at home," these symbols seem to say, thus tying media culture and the seduction of consumerism to the production of ingeniously designed symbolic spaces. This is the first book to explore the origins, nature, and future of themed spaces in our information-overloaded world. Gottdiener begins with a brief historical account of the shifting importance of themes in the construction of built space. He then evaluates the economic basis for the increasing reliance on symbols in the marketing of commercial enterprises and analyzes contemporary trends in themed restaurants, malls, airports, theme parks, museums, and war memorials. Final chapters are devoted to examining such critical issues as the disappearance of public space, the relation between themes and mass media industries, and the future of symbolic spaces.

Rethinking Commodification

Author : Martha Ertman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814722288
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Commodification written by Martha Ertman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world that is often ruled by buyers and sellers, those things that are often considered priceless become objects to be marketed and from which to earn a profit.

Commodifying Bodies

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761940340
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Commodifying Bodies written by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Breaking with established approaches which prioritize the body as 'text', the chapters in this book examine not only images of the body-turned-merchandise but actually existing organisms considered at once as material entities, semi-magical tokens, symbolic vectors and founts of lived experience. The topics covered range from the cultural disposal and media treatment of corpses, the biopolitics of cells, sperm banks and eugenics, to the international trafficking of kidneys, the development of 'transplant tourism', to the idioms of corporeal exploitation among prizefighters as a limiting case of fleshly commodity".--BOOKJACKET.

The Christian Imagination

Author : Willie James Jennings
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300163088
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Christian Imagination written by Willie James Jennings and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging work, Willie James Jennings delves deep into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christian imagination grew, to reveal how Christianity's highly refined process of socialization has inadvertently created and maintained segregated societies. A probing study of the cultural fragmentation-social, spatial, and racial-that took root in the Western mind, this book shows how Christianity has consistently forged Christian nations rather than encouraging genuine communion between disparate groups and individuals. Weaving together the stories of Zurara, the royal chronicler of Prince Henry, the Jesuit theologian Jose de Acosta, the famed Anglican Bishop John William Colenso, and the former slave writer Olaudah Equiano, Jennings narrates a tale of loss, forgetfulness, and missed opportunities for the transformation of Christian communities. Touching on issues of slavery, geography, Native American history, Jewish-Christian relations, literacy, and translation, he brilliantly exposes how the loss of land and the supersessionist ideas behind the Christian missionary movement are both deeply implicated in the invention of race. Using his bold, creative, and courageous critique to imagine a truly cosmopolitan citizenship that transcends geopolitical, nationalist, ethnic, and racial boundaries, Jennings charts, with great vision, new ways of imagining ourselves, our communities, and the landscapes we inhabit.

This Holy Mystery

Author : Gayle Carlton Felton
Publisher : Upper Room Books
ISBN 13 : 0881776750
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book This Holy Mystery written by Gayle Carlton Felton and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the body of Christ. This is the blood of Christ." It's Communion Sunday. The service is a little longer, and the sacrament is observed with gravity. You know it's important, but the wonder is lost. What does it all mean, really? According to the results of a survey, you're not alone. United Methodists have a strong sense of the importance of Holy Communion, but they also lack a meaningful understanding of the theology behind it. Reclaim a richer sacramental life in your congregation through a group study of This Holy Mystery. In 2004, the General Conference of The United Methodist Church adopted an official interpretative document on Holy Communion. For the first time in our history, the denomination has an official, comprehensive statement of the practice and theology of the Lord's Supper. Now, it's time for congregations to help members understand the observance. "We believe that study of this document will yield increased appreciation for the sacrament in the worship experience and enable United Methodist people to draw nourishment and strength for their ongoing journeys of faith," writes Felton. This Holy Mystery: A United Methodist Understanding of Holy Communion is a study guide of the General Conference–approved document. An all-in-one resource, this book is for both participants and leaders. It's divided into 7 sessions, providing commentary on the history, practice, and principles of Holy Communion in United Methodist congregations. It also points to implications of the sacrament for ministry and mission. We come to the Table of the Lord, seeking to have our spiritual needs met. The benefits include forgiveness, nourishment, healing, transformation, ministry and mission, and eternal life. Renew your appreciation for the divine grace made available through this sacrament.

Church as Communion

Author : Philip Kariatlis
Publisher : ATF Press
ISBN 13 : 1921817097
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Church as Communion written by Philip Kariatlis and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Kariatlis is a lecturer of theology at St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College, Sydney, Australia. In 2010 he received his doctorate in Ecclesiology from the Sydney College of Divinity. His research interests lie in Church doctrine, specifically its existential and salvific significance. He translated the doctoral dissertation of Archbishop Stylianos (Harkianakis) entitled The Infallibility of the Church in Orthodox Theology (2008). He is a member of the Faith and Unity Commission of the National Council of Churches in Australia.