McFague, Sallie.

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.

9780800699604 (alk. paper) 0800699602 (alk. paper) 9781451438673 (ebk.)

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Human ecology--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Consumption (Economics)--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Christian saints--Biography.

BT695.5.M4428 2013 / 14570

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