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The Gospel According to Safeway

The checkout line and the good life.

Jeremy D. Lawson, Michael J. Sleasman, and Charles A. Anderson, excerpted and adapted from Everyday Theology. | posted 10/16/2007 08:45AM

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Used by permission of Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, copyright 2007. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published in other media, or mirrored at other sites without written permission from Baker Publishing Group.

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Also see the interview with Everyday Theology's main editor, Kevin Vanhoozer, on our site today.

Everyday Theology and an excerpt of the introduction are available from ChristianBook.com and other retailers.

Daniel Williams wrote about Augustine's view of "The Good Life" in our September issue.

Other articles on books are available on our site.

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John	Posted: October 17, 2007 7:30 AM


The Us and People magazine outsell The Economist and US News and World Report is sad but nothing new. People's lives are hard, at the end of the day do they really want to read an in-depth analysis of the body county in Iraq? They need a little fluff in their life, it's harmless, the people at the Baker publishing Group need to get over themselves.

jeri cadwallader

Posted: October 17, 2007 6:35 AM

Even a cursory reading of the teachings of Jesus Christ reveal His take on preoccupation with love of (and consumption of) this material world. In our hedonistic culture it has become a daily battle not to surrrender to the trivial. Materialism seduces, preoccupies and ultimately consumes the consumer. I often find myself wondering if it would be easier to serve the Lord in a part of the world where there are fewer distractions.

Robert

Posted: October 16, 2007 1:48 PM

This says it all: "Used by permission of Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, copyright 2007. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published in other media, or mirrored at other sites without written permission from Baker Publishing Group." If you want to read a good book, pick up N.T. Wright's "Simply Christian" rather than wasting your time trolling through our consumer society with Lawson, Sleasman and Anderson. If you ask me, this book is simply an excuse for these authors to enjoy the very consumer oriented society they critique, all the while pretending they are not seduced by it. Face it, we've all been seduced! That we live in a consumer oriented society with all the ancillary distractions that go therewith should not be news to anyone. If you actually insist on reading a good book about culture, etc. read Ken Meyer's excellent book: "All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes".

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