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Consuming Faith

Tyler Wigg Stevenson says real Christianity isn't the kind you can buy.

Review by Read Mercer Schuchardt | posted 9/26/2008 11:17AM

Brand Jesus: Christianity in a Consumerist Age
by Tyler Wigg Stevenson,
Seabury Books
234 pages, $16.

Christianity in America is more or less a well-advertised and well-marketed lifestyle by now. In fact, ...

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Tim	Posted: October 08, 2008 4:33 PM


Wigg-Stevenson's book gives us the reason why the Christian bookstore is neither Christian nor bookstore. The industry has sold its soul to the gods of materialism. There is a special place in the hereafter for the religious robber barons. May their tribe decrease.

Mark	Posted: October 06, 2008 3:48 PM

As long as I can remember, commercialism, t-shirt piety and bumper-sticker evangelicalism have been contrasted with the means of grace, the mission, the doctrine and the diaconate of churchly orthopraxy. But that's not what I perceive being offered here. Here I sense another attempt to swing the direction of error from one low Christology to another, from Jesus in a business-suit to Jesus the activist, from flippant consumerism to guilt-ridden liberationism, from one worldly way to another.

Ephrem Hagos

Posted: September 27, 2008 2:33 AM

The antidote for the nominal and heavily commercialized Christianity we have is to invest all of one's individual study and prayer in knowing Jesus Christ, firsthand and personally, i.e., just as He is, from the "tree of life" (yes, the cross)! This is the self-sufficient life exhibited in the diacritical death at the end of the hard way and narrow gate few people find (Matt. 7: 13-14). What a glory!

Mr. Amen

Posted: September 26, 2008 1:08 PM


Finally Some one gets it.

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