An other kingdom : departing the consumer culture / Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight.

An other kingdom : departing the consumer culture / Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight.

9781119194729 (paperback)
1119194725 (paperback)

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2016]

©2016

English

xxiii, 119 pages ; 23 cm

307.14 B651o 2016

(OCoLC)931226755
(OCoLC)931226755

"The Other Kingdom is about reframing how society views its communal identity. The book proposes to identify what has been considered sacred language and use it as an opening into the experience of community and the commons. It lays out a faith narrative without the negative traces of sectarianism. Readers are dared to imagine the human benefit of an alternative to the market ideology that defines our culture, called the Neighborly Covenant because it enlivens and humanizes the social order. The Other Kingdom proposes language for alternative ways to a covenantal culture, one that is active beyond election years and has different substance in defining society's communal identity"-- Provided by publisher.

Machine generated contents note: Signs of the Times Introduction: Context Is Decisive The Landscape of the Market World Enclosure Covenantal versus Contractual Order The Neighborly Covenant Chapter 1. The Free Market Consumer Ideology Scarcity Certainty and Perfection Privatization The Institutional Assumptions Better Management/Technology Is the Fix Interpersonal Is a Problem Competition Trumps Trust Toward a Neighborly Culture A Culture Based on Covenant Chapter 2. Neighborly Beliefs Abundance Mystery Mystery at Work A Place for God Holiness Wilderness Fallibility Failing to Be God Grief The Common Good Chapter 3. Enough Is Enough: Limits of the Market Ideology The Consumer Market Disciplines Surplus Predictability and Control Speed and Convenience The Blanket of Technology The Sale of Convenience Convenience Displaces Capacity Digital Solutions The Meaning of Money Money and the Machine Wishing for Safety, Believing in Growth Competition and Class Class by Design Class Warfare and the Distribution of Wealth The Myth of Individualism Chapter 4. Tentacles of Empire The Corporatization of Schools No View from the Top End of Aliveness Mobility and Isolation Un-Productive Wealth Violence Illusion of Reform Chapter 5. The Common Good Is the New Frontier The Neighborly Covenant The Commons An Alternative Social Order Resisting the Empire Off-Market Possibilities The Neighborly Way The Alternative to Restless Productivity The Shadow Side of Community Chapter 6. The Disciplines of Neighborliness Time A Time for All Things Time Is the Devil Standing in Line Kairos Food Food and Sacred Re-Performance The Local Food Movement Food and Culture Silence Listening Quakers and Time and Listening Sacraments of Silence Covenant: A Vow of Freedom and Faithfulness Covenant and Retributive Justice The Right Use of Money Money and Our Affection for Place A Liturgy for the Common Good Prophetic Possibilities Story as Liturgy and Re-performance The Re-Performing Power of Liturgy Postscript: Beyond Money and Consumption Timing Is Everything Signs of Change Commentaries References and Further Reading Acknowledgments Index About the Authors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online version: Block, Peter, author. Other kingdom. Hoboken : Wiley, 2016

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