Dethroning Mammon : Making Money Serve Grace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welby, Justin, 1956-

Series:

Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent book ; 2017.

Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent book ; 2017

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Economics.

Money--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Money.

Physical Description:

192 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Summary:

In his first full-length book Justin Welby looks at the subject of money and materialism. Designed for study in the weeks of Lent leading up to Easter, Dethroning Mammon reflects on the impact of our own attitudes, and of the pressures that surround us, on how we handle the power of money, called Mammon in this book. Who will be on the throne of our lives? Who will direct our actions and attitudes? Is it Jesus Christ, who brings truth, hope and freedom? Or is it Mammon, so attractive, so clear, but leading us into paths that tangle, trip and deceive? Archbishop Justin explores the tensions that arise in a society dominated by Mammon's modern aliases, economics and finance, and by the pressures of our culture to conform to Mammon's expectations. Following the Gospels towards Easter, this book asks the reader what it means to dethrone Mammon in the values and priorities of our civilisation and in our own existence. In Dethroning Mammon, Archbishop Justin encourages us to use Lent as a time of learning to trust in the abundance and grace of God.

Contents:

Foreword / Jean Vanier

Introduction

What we see we value

What we measure controls us

What we have we hold

What we receive we treat as ours

What we give we gain

What we master brings us joy

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472929778

1472929772

OCLC:

980944469