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From Complicity to Encounter - The Church and the Culture of Economism (Paperback)
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From Complicity to Encounter - The Church and the Culture of Economism (Paperback)
Series: Christian mission & modern culture
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Jane Collier and Raphael Esteban present a thoughtful and
disturbing critique of Western culture. They see the West as
obsessed by the "culture of economism" a pervasive and often
oppressive culture in which economic causes or factors become the
main source of cultural meanings and values. Such economism, they
point out, perpetrates inequality, injustice, divisions among
people (especially rich and poor), and a host of other evils
throughout the world. The culture of economism touches all of us
and is, in fact, manifest also in the organizational culture of the
church. In many respects, the church has allied itself with the
culture of economism (complicity), participating in a shared
history of conquest and oppression. But recent paradigm shifts at
the organizational level in both the church (spawned by awareness
that the Spirit works in all places and in all cultures) and
economism (spawned by the awareness of the basic failure of
economism and its institutions to produce human happiness and of
its power to demolish so much that is good in the world) present a
window of opportunity for mission. Collier and Esteban believe that
mission within and to the "culture of economism" needs to be a
mission of encounter in which each challenges the other to
conversion. Such conversion does not necessarily imply the
abandonment of power, but the abandonment of its misuses and the
commitment to the pursuit of the good. At that point there is "no
longer master and slave, Gentile and Jew, male and female, but all
are one in Christ Jesus." Jane Collier is an economist and
theologian who lectures in Management Studies at the University of
Cambridge. Raphael Esteban, M.Afr., is a theologian and
missiologist who lectures at the Missionary Institute, London, on
the social and economic context of mission.
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