Blessed are the consumers : climate change and the practice of restraint /
Sallie McFague.
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2013.
- xv, 225 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Religion, ecology, and economics -- "But enough about me": what does Augustine's Confessions have to do with Facebook? -- "Where are we?": living well on planet earth -- Lives of the saints: John Woolman, Simone Weil, And Dorothy Day -- Practice of the saints I: voluntary poverty in order to pay attention to the material needs of others -- Practice of the saints II: the development of the universal self at local and global levels -- "It's not about you": kenosis as a way to live -- Kenotic theology -- "What next?" living the kenotic life personally, professionally, and publicly.