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SKU (ISBN): 9781426710056
ISBN10: 1426710054
Walter Brueggemann
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: October 2010
Publisher: Abingdon Press
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It was the center of learning, commerce, wealth, and religion. Devoted to materialism, extravagance, luxury, and the pursuit of sensual pleasure, it was a privileged society. But, there was also injustice, poverty, oppression. It was the great and ancient Babylon-the center of the universe. And now we now find Babylon redux today in Western society. Consumer capitalism, a never-ending cycle of working and buying, a sea of choices produced with little regard to life or resources, societal violence, marginalized and excluded people, a world headed toward climactic calamity. Where are the prophets-the Jeremiah-to lead the way out of the gated communities of overindulgence, the high rises of environmental disaster, and the darkness at the core of an apostate consumer society?
Walter Brueggemann-a scholar, a preacher, a prophetic voice in our own time-challenges us again to examine our culture, turn from the idols of abundance and abuse, and turn to lives of meaning and substance.
SKU (ISBN): 9781426710056
ISBN10: 1426710054
Walter Brueggemann
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: October 2010
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Print On Demand Product
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