Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint

Contents

Contents Preface: Religion, Ecology, and Economics ix 1. “But Enough about Me”: What Does Augustine’s Confessions Have to Do with Facebook? 1 2. “Where Are We?”: Living Well on Planet Earth 17 3. The Lives of the Saints: John Woolman, Simone Weil, and Dorothy Day 39 4. The Practice of the Saints : Voluntary Poverty in Order to Pay Attention to the Material Needs of Others 81 5. The Practice of the Saints : The Development of the Universal Self at Local and Global Levels 111 6. “It’s Not About You”: Kenosis as a Way to Live 141 7. Kenotic Theology 171 8. What Next?: Living the Kenotic Life Personally, Professionally, and Publicly 207 Index 217 vii ...