Consuming Jesus :

Metzger, Paul Louis.

Consuming Jesus : beyond race and class divisions in a consumer church / Paul Louis Metzger. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2007. - x, 191 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

A faulty order : retreating battle camps and homogeneous units -- Disordered vision : battling the consumer balrog -- Reordering the cosmic powers : turning tables at the stone table -- Reordering the Christian's life : the supernatural shakeup -- Reordering the church : recovering the lost ark -- Reordering the church's outreach : overcoming market -- Forces and building beloved community.

9780802830685 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2007026264


Food--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Dinners and dining--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Church.
Consumption (Economics)--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Materialism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Social classes.

BR 115 .N87 / M48 2007

261.0973