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Rescuing the Church... examines how people are initiated into a consumer culture during childhood and thus drawn into pursuing a vocation as consumers by means of various quasi-sacramental rites and practices.
The upshot of this is that the church today is composed primarily of men and women whose lives are situated more within a consumer culture than within a distinctively Christian one.
In order for the church to free itself, the author believes it must reclaim a sacramental identity that is grounded in a narrative tradition and realized in real, local worshipping communities.
Preface
1 The cult of consumerism
2 initiation into consumerism
3 The consumer rites of adulthood
4 A Church for consumer tribes
5 Alienated sacraments
6 The household of god
7 Principles for a domestic Church
Notes
References