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, and oppression. It was the great and ancient Babylon—the center of the universe.
And now we 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 Jeremiahs—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.
Walter Brueggemann
Out of Babylon [EPUB ebook]
Out of Babylon [EPUB ebook]
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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● ISBN 9781426729812 ● Tamanho do arquivo 0.4 MB ● Editora Abingdon Press ● País US ● Publicado 2010 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 6462332 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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