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"The more we try to ground our identities in external possessions or triumphs, the more we plaster our names on everything we can accumulate, the more we cling to surface and style, the less we find underneath." -- John F. Kavanaugh

"This book was waiting to be written. It had to be said. And John Kavanaugh says it very well. The Kingdom is coming in this book." -- Richard Rohr

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Orbis Books; 25th Anniversary ed. edition (November 30, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 157075666X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1570756665
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.7 x 0.65 x 8.1 inches

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He makes a strong point for how advertising and consumerism is about selling people back something better than human companionsh

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2015

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Saw Cavanaugh's lecture back in 2002 at SLU. It was a well practiced and heavily ad-based foray into the consumer form and how advertising intercedes in human relationships. He makes a strong point for how advertising and consumerism is about selling people back something better than human companionship and human love, and his advertising slogans and images demonstrate this. The book lacks that detail for the obvious reason that no cigarette, beer, women's jeans company would dare allow a writer to use their ads in a critical deconstruction of the symbolic manipulation at play in consumer advertising. Haven't finished it, and I'm not staunchly a believer but I find his points extremely important in a world where people are often more invested in phones, large-screen TVs, cars, and fashion than they are in themselves, their families, or their friends. That's a glass half empty argument about what is evident in today. While I'm not going to simply advocate prayer in school as the pat answer to our ills, but losing the aspect of religious education that instills human values over material values is a vital part of what may have been lost wholesale as we've secularized much of our educational goals and families are too busy at work or at personal play to teach their own children.

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We Are Not Commodities

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I will pull no punches; Following Christ in a Consumer Society is not an easy read. However, even if one has to struggle with concepts such as "Commodity Form" and other new terms, one has to credit author, John Kavanaugh with a rare and vital insight into just what is wrong with our present culture. His basic thesis: We have pinned our identities, our dealings with others, and our very hopes on "things", with the result that we have ourselves become expendable commodities, and we tend to treat others as such. Having diagnosed this serious illness in consumer society, Kavanaugh goes on to devote much space to the remedy: a living of gospel values rather than the values created by a society that says you are what you own. I found this book essential for spiritual survival.

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John Kavanaugh has certainly done his research over the years. He can quote statistics, pundits, culture critics as well as scholars who provide specific details of the disintegration of the American notion of the common good that results from a belief in meritocracy and an economic philosophy of consumerism that leaves out too many citizens. His is an appeal to a way of adjusting our lens so that we can revise our thinking to understand the importance of inclusion and the possibility that making room for others may include the necessity of personal change, perhaps even personal sacrifice.

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Fair & Balanced: mostly

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Fr Kavanaugh kept the dynamic tension between "liberal" and "conservative" me stay in balance. He tilts left; but each time I thought he was going to topple over, he righted himself. Overall, a thorough examination of consumerism, and it's antidote: the Gospel of Christ.

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Father John Kavanaugh SJ, the late Jesuit philosopher at Saint Louis University, was one of the most accessible philosophical ethicists of modern times. Author of the "ethics notebook" in America magazine, Kavanaugh is still best known for this little paperback on the ethics of being a Christian in today's materialistic consumer society. This book is definitely on the side of applied rather than theoretical ethics, but it will really make you think in the way it applies humanistic ethical principles to contemporary life. It's a book that deserves to be re-read in the era of Pope Francis, one of its spiritual bedfellows. I highly recommend it.

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rodney snedeker

An intelligent, articulate discussion of the relationhip of faith to our "Consumer Socidety."

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He is very articulate in connecting a deep Christian faith with a solid social concern. Many of his phrases would be worth quoting to anyone who feels Christianity is a passive faith concerned with retreating from the ambiguous, smbivalent, conflictual world in which we live. He understands the implications of consumerism for the depersonalization and fragmentation of community. He offers many hints at how we might move our culture away from its obsession with objects to an inclusive, caring community.

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The author provides an excellent overview and critique of our consumer society. He describes how our secular values infiltrate and contaminate modern Christian churches as well as other institutions. I appreciated his advice that Christian social justice is best accomplished througha devout community with frequent access to the sacraments. Kavanaugh is obviously a keen observer of human nature in both religious and secular settings. His observations are kind, sensible, and hopeful for anyone that wishes to address social social justice issue and not become discouraged.

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Good book by a great writer.

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Excellent treatise on the commercial "Commodity Form" versus the Christian "Personal Form", by a terrific writer and professor. So professionally written that I sometimes felt like I needed a PhD to read it.

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John Kavanaaugh, as always, in an insightful, ...

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John Kavanaaugh, as always, in an insightful, critical thinker, presenting the updated facts for reflection in his latest version!

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