Gifts Glittering and Poisoned

Gifts Glittering and Poisoned
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 9781630876692
ISBN-13 : 1630876690
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Book Synopsis Gifts Glittering and Poisoned by : Chanon Ross

Download or read book Gifts Glittering and Poisoned written by Chanon Ross and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spectacles designed to capture our attention surround us. Marketing, movies, shopping malls, concerts, and virtual realities capture our imaginations and cultivate our desires. We live in a "society of the spectacle." However, is the power and prevalence of spectacle unique to the modern era? In the pages of Gifts Glittering and Poisoned, early Christian voices echo across the centuries to show that the society of the spectacle is not new. Our era resembles a time when the spectacular entertainments of ancient Rome had a profound effect on every aspect of social life. By drawing on the rich theology and witness of early Christianity, Gifts Glittering and Poisoned asks what it means for us to live in a new era of empire and spectacle. Through Augustine's description of the demonic, it shows how consumerism constructs a sophisticated symbolic order, a "society of the spectacle," that corrupts our deepest longings for God.


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