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Jesus goes to McDonald's : theology and consumer society / Luiz Alexandre Solano Rossi ; foreword by Norman K. Gottwald.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Eugene, Ore. : Wipf & Stock, ©2011Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 122 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781630874773
  • 1630874779
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jesus goes to McDonald'sDDC classification:
  • 223.106 23
LOC classification:
  • BS1415.6.W35 R67 2011eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The empire fights back : Job and the origin of the poor's suffering -- Theology and anti-theology in the book of Job -- The theology of prosperity -- Building solidarity on the road of defeat.
Summary: This book demonstrates that Latin American liberation theology continues to produce substantial biblical exegesis, absorbing theological reflection, and a sharp social critique that enhances the worldwide church. In Jesus Goes to McDonald's, Rossi asserts that the book of Job protests against the devastating effects of imperial Persian rule in postexilic Judah -- effects seen as the stimulus for the theology of reward so severely criticized by Job. Not since Gustavo Gutierrez's On Job has there been such a compelling reading of the book of Job as a literary mirror of oppressive socioeconomic and political conditions. Rossi uses Job to offer a critique of the prosperity theology that is so dominant in parts of the church today. The second half of the book offers a radical critique of "the McDonalidization" of society and church. Free market capitalism has become an all-embracing worldview to the detriment of society and church. As counter-speech, Rossi proposes a theology that favors life, a life in which solidarity with the poor is central
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)864831

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-122).

The empire fights back : Job and the origin of the poor's suffering -- Theology and anti-theology in the book of Job -- The theology of prosperity -- Building solidarity on the road of defeat.

This book demonstrates that Latin American liberation theology continues to produce substantial biblical exegesis, absorbing theological reflection, and a sharp social critique that enhances the worldwide church. In Jesus Goes to McDonald's, Rossi asserts that the book of Job protests against the devastating effects of imperial Persian rule in postexilic Judah -- effects seen as the stimulus for the theology of reward so severely criticized by Job. Not since Gustavo Gutierrez's On Job has there been such a compelling reading of the book of Job as a literary mirror of oppressive socioeconomic and political conditions. Rossi uses Job to offer a critique of the prosperity theology that is so dominant in parts of the church today. The second half of the book offers a radical critique of "the McDonalidization" of society and church. Free market capitalism has become an all-embracing worldview to the detriment of society and church. As counter-speech, Rossi proposes a theology that favors life, a life in which solidarity with the poor is central

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