On consumer culture, identity, the church and the rhetorics of delight, Clavier, Mark (brecon Cathedral, Uk)

Автор: Clavier Mark
Название: On Consumer Culture, Identity, the Church and the Rhetorics
ISBN: 1501330918 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501330919
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Clavier Mark
Название: Rescuing the Church from Consumerism
ISBN: 0281070385 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780281070381
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Описание: Suggests that the church today is composed of people whose lives are situated more within a consumer culture than within a distinctively Christian one. In order for the church to free itself, the author believes it must reclaim a sacramental identity that is grounded in a narrative tradition and realized in real, local worshipping communities.