The vice of luxury : economic excess in a consumer age / David Cloutier.
The vice of luxury : economic excess in a consumer age / David Cloutier.
The vice of luxury : economic excess in a consumer age / David Cloutier.
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Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2015]
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G 2015/4279
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English
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xi, 315 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Chapter 1. Why Luxury? -- Chapter 2. Luxury in History : A Brief Survey -- Chapter 3. Neglected Vice : How Luxury Degrades Us, Our Work, and Our Communities -- Chapter 4. Neglected Sacramentality : Why Luxury Blocks a Spirituality of our Material Goods -- Chapter 5. Neglecting Positionality : Why Lu...
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Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2015]
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District of Columbia
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[2015]
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The problem of luxury has been neglected in contemporary Christian theology and philosophy, as well as in the broader social debate about the morality of our common economic life. And according to moral theologian David Cloutier this neglect of luxury has had harmful consequences: Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions are filled with critiques...
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The vice of luxury : economic excess in a consumer age / David Cloutier.
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The moral traditions series.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-300) and index.
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G 2015/4279
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74VKRlJrWlvA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKRlJrWlvA
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9781626162709 hardcover alkaline paper
1626162700 hardcover alkaline paper
9781626162563 paperback alkaline paper
1626162565 paperback alkaline paper
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241.68
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991023302859702626
