Being Consumed Economics and Christian Desire

Name: Being Consumed Economics and Christian Desire
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ISBN: 9780802845610

ISBN-10: 0802845614

ISBN-13: 9780802845610

Edition: 2008

Authors: William T. Cavanaugh

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Should Christians be for or against the free market? For or against globalization? How are we to live in a world of scarcity? William Cavanaugh uses Christian resources to incisively address basic economic matters - the free market, consumer culture, globalization, and scarcity - arguing that we should not just accept these as givens but should instead change the terms of the debate. Among other things, Cavanaugh discusses how God, in the Eucharist, forms us to consume and be consumed rightly. Examining pathologies of desire in contemporary "free market" economies, Being Consumed puts forth a positive and inspiring vision of how the body of Christ can engage in economic alternatives. At…

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List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Publication date: 3/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.34" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Introduction



Freedom and Unfreedom



Detachment and Attachment



The Global and the Local



Scarcity and Abundance


Index